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white from the bill passing over the eye, entire length of the head ; 

 upper plumage grayish-brown, streaked in the centre with black ; 

 fore neck and upper part of the breast, ash-gray, streaked with 

 dusky ; lower part of the breast, abdomen, and lower tail coverts 

 white; upper tail coverts white, spotted with dusky; wings brown, 

 coverts lighter, tipped with white. Length eight inches and three 

 quarters, wing five. 



This species is an inhabitant of both continents. It has been 

 found in France and Switzerland, and has been seen during the 

 breeding season nesting along the water courses in Holland. We 

 have no account of its breeding in America, and its occurrence 

 within the limits of the Union is unfrequent ; and from all that I 

 can learn respecting its wanderings, it has more frequently visited 

 our section than any other portion of the sea coast of the United 

 States. Mr. Bell informs me that he has in the course of several 

 years purchased seven or eight in the Fulton Market, New York ; 

 and I know of two or three others obtained there. The cabinet of 

 the N. Y. Lyceum of Natural History contains a superb specimen, 

 and I have in my possession a fine adult male in spring plumage — 

 and another in winter dress — all of which were procured on the 

 ever productive shores of Long Island. Of its habits but little is 

 known, further than that it frequents the shores, and searches for 

 food much in the manner of many other species of Tringa. Mr. 

 Audubon remarks, that during his extensive rambles along our coasts, 

 and in the interior, he has only seen three birds of this species, two of 

 which were shot at Great Egg Habor in the spring of 1839 — the 

 other on Long Island, near Sandy Hook. Of this Genus he consid- 

 ers it the most rare, of any species which inhabits North America. 



