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SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa macularia, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Totanus macularius, SELBY. JENYNS. 



" macularia, TEMMINCK. 



Tringa ? Macularia. Macula A spot. 



THIS bird appears frequently in the north of Europe, in 

 Sweden, and the Islands of the Baltic, and also in Germany. 

 In America, it is common from Labrador and Canada to 

 Texas, Mexico, and the Islands of the West Indies. 



One was shot on the coast of Norfolk, between Runton 

 and Sherringham, about the 26th. of September, 1839. 



It is a migratory species, moving southwards in October, 

 and northwards in the spring. 



The Spotted Sandpiper exhibits the like anxiety for its 

 young which so many other kinds do, and developes it in 

 the same manner in endeavouring, by every device, to draw 

 away intruders. Audubon mentions the fact of one of these 

 birds, which he had disturbed, having removed two eggs from 

 the nest, which contained four, and this although he had, 

 with a view to their subsequent procurement, placed stones 

 over the nest in such a manner as that it was impossible 

 she could have bodily entered it. She must, as I have shewn 

 elsewhere of another species, have abstracted them with her 

 bill. 



The Spotted Sandpiper is to be found in summer in woody 

 districts, by the edges of lakes, and as well along the side 

 of a meandring river, or the pebbled margin of some small 

 'streamlet or rill,' which gently follows its downward course 

 along the bank of a shelving copse or the quiet side of a 

 flat meadow. It is rarely seen by the sea-side. 



The nest is placed in some well-hidden spot in a field, 



