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of rivers and small streams, or of open ponds, or on the sea-shore, 

 not generally in marshes. It breeds in Kashmir, and is said to 

 have been found breeding on the Eastern Nara in Sind, but this 

 requires confirmation. The eggs, four in number, are buff with 

 blackish specks and spots ; they measure about 1*41 by 1*06, and 

 have been taken in Kashmir in May and June. 



1461. Totanus glareola. The Wood Sandpiper. 



Tringa glareola, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i, p. 677 (1788). 



Totanus glareola, Temm. Man. cEQrn. p. 421 ; James, S. F. i, p. 421 ; 

 Hume, S. F. ii, p. 298 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 678 ; 

 Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 857; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 589 ; Biddulph, 

 Ibis, 1882, p. 288 ; Swmhoe, Ibis, 1882, p. 121 ; Gates, B. B. ii, 

 p. 401 ; Seebohm, Charadr. p. 365 ; St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 177. 



p. 86 ; Butler, S. F. ix, p. 429 ; Reid, S. F. x, p. 70; Davidson, 

 ibid. p. 321 ; Damson, ibid. p. 414; Hume, S. F.xi, p. 324; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 491. 



Actitis glm-eola, Bh/th, Cat. p, 267; Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 697 ; Blyth, 

 Ibis, 1867, p. 169; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, p. 273; 

 Stolicska, J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 252 ; Walden, Ibis, 1873, p. 317 ; 

 Butler, S. F. iv, p. ] 7 ; v, p. 233 ; Armstrong, IS. F. iv, p. 344 ; 

 Ball, S. F. vii, p. 228 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 96 ; Barnes, Birds 

 Bom. p. 357. 



The Spotted Sandpiper, Jerdon; Chupka, Chobaha, Tutwan, II.; Chinna 

 ulcuika, Tel. 



Fig. 60. Head of T. glareola. \. 



Coloration in winter. Upper parts brown, feathers of the crown 

 and hind neck with pale greyish edges ; white supercilia from the 

 bill ; lores brown ; sides of head and neck paler, with dark streaks ; 

 back, rump, scapulars, tertiaries, and wing-coverts spotted with 

 dark brown and white, forming a border of alternating dark and pale 

 spots on the tertiaries ; smaller coverts, primary-coverts, primaries, 

 and secondaries dark brown, later primaries and secondaries with 

 narrow white borders terminally ; upper tail-coverts white ; median 

 rectrices ashy brown with dark brown cross-bands, other rectrices 

 barred brown and white, the brown bars disappearing on the outer 

 tail-feathers ; fore neck and upper breast brownish streaked with 

 dark brown, rest of lower parts white ; axillaries barred with 

 brown. 



