SANDPIPER. GRALLATORES. TOTANUS. 81 



COMMON SANDPIPER. 



TOTANUS HYPOLEUCOS, Temm. 

 PLATE XV. Fia. 3. 4. 



Totanus Hypoleucos, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 657 Shaw's Zool. 12. 142. 



Flem. Br. Anim. I. 104. No. 143. 

 Tringa Hypoleucos, Linn. Syst. 1. 250. 14 Gmel. Syst. 1. 678 Lath. Ind, 



Ornith. 2. 734. 28. 



Tringa minor, Rail Syn. 108. A. 6. Will. 223. t. 55. 

 Le Guinette. Buff. Ois. 7. 540. 

 Chevalier Guinette, Temm. Man. 2. 657. 

 Trillender Strandlaufer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 295. Meyer, Tasschenb. 



Deut. 2. 389. 

 Common Sandpiper, Br. Zool. 2. No. 204. t. 71 Arct. Zool. 2. No. 388. 



Will. (Angl.) 301. t. 55 Lath. Syn. 178. 23 Mont. Ornith. Diet 



Bewick's Br. Birds, 2. 104 Ib. 2. 111. the Young Shaw's Zool. 12. 



142 Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 104. No. 143. 

 Spotted Sandpiper, Bewick's Br. Birds, 2. 111. 



PROVINCIAL Willy-wicket, Water-junket, Summer Snipe. 



THIS active little bird is a regular periodical visitant, and Periodical 

 during summer is the well known inhabitant of the margins 

 of all our rivers and lakes. It usually makes its first ap- 

 pearance about the 20th of April, and I have observed that 

 if suffered to breed unmolested, the same pair (at least so it 

 may be presumed) will return for many successive seasons to 

 the locality previously occupied. In this country its migra- 

 tions extend to the northern parts of the mainland of Scot- 

 land, as it is known in Caithness, which appears to be its 

 boundary in this longitude, as it is not noticed by Low in 

 his Natural History of the Orkneys, and Dr FLEMING, in 

 his History of British Animals, states it to be wanting in 

 these islands. It is very abundant upon the shores of the 

 Scottish fresh-water lakes, and upon Loch Awe in July 

 (when the young broods begin to fly), I have at one view 

 seen three or four families on the wing crossing over or skim- 

 ming along the edges of the lake. The Common Sandpiper 

 is a bird of most lively habits, having its body in continual 



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