BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



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Common Sanbpiper. 



THE Common Sandpiper (Totanus hypohucus, Linnaeus) is 

 a summer migrant to the British Isles, and also inhabits the 

 Palearctic Region. The adult has the upper parts of a sandy 

 brown, finely barred, streaked, and marked with zigzag 

 lines of darker brown ; wings, brown tinged with blackish, 

 and barred with white ; tail, brownish ; outer pairs of 

 rectrices, barred with black and tipped with white; eye- 

 stripe, chin, and throat, white ; sides of neck and breast, 

 suffused with pale brownish-greyish streaked with dark 

 brown ; under parts and axillaries, white ; irides, hazel ; 

 bill, blackish-brown ; legs and feet, olive, tinged with grey. 

 Length, about seven inches. The female is similar to male. 

 The young show buff margins on the upper feathers, and 

 streaks on throat are absent. 



