76 GRALLATORES. TOTANUS. SANDPIPER. 



on the moors of Northumberland in August, and have now 

 in my collection two beautiful specimens, killed by the side 

 of a small mountain rill. Another, also killed in the same 

 county, is now in the museum of the Natural History So- 

 ciety at Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; and JOHN MURRAY, Esq. of 

 Murraythwaite in Dumfriesshire, possesses a male and fe- 

 male, shot by him when together, near that place in the 

 spring of 1829. This species occurs throughout the great- 

 est part of continental Europe, frequenting inland rivers and 

 waters, and is said to retire into the northern central parts 

 Nest, &c. to breed. The nest is made by the side of some stream, and 

 the eggs (according to TEMMINCK) are of a greenish- white, 

 blotched with brown. It is also found in several parts of 

 Asia. By many writers this has been confounded with an- 

 other species, viz. Totanus Glareola, the Wood Sandpiper ; 

 and LATHAM, in the Supplement to his General Synopsis, 

 has unaccountably united them, although, in his Index Or- 

 nithologicus, they stand as distinct species. MONTAGU, 

 however, in his Ornithological Dictionary and its Supple- 

 ment, has pointed out the peculiar distinctions of each, and 

 which are indeed so strongly marked, as to render the dis- 

 crimination of the two birds a matter of no doubt to those 

 who have an opportunity of examining them. 



PLATE 16. Fig. 2. Represents the Green Sandpiper, from a 

 specimen killed on the moors near Twizell, as above 

 mentioned, apparently a bird of the year, as it has the 

 distinguishing marks of that state, as given by TEM- 

 MINCK. 



General The crown of the head hair-brown. The streaks passing 

 tion. nP ~ above and below the eye white, speckled with hair- 



brown ; the intermediate space being dark hair-brown. 

 Chin and throat white. The sides and back part of 

 the neck hair-brown, tinged with grey, and varied with 

 fine striae of greyish-white. Fore part of the neck and 

 breast white, with lance-shaped spots of hair-brown, 

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