350 ORALLY. SCOLOPACIDjE. 



which time it frequently made a succession of 

 charges at the wires, squatting down at intervals 

 on the belly. When it walked, it was in a singular 

 manner; the heel much bent, the tarsus forming 

 an acute angle with the ground, and the toes 

 thrown forward. 



BAR-TAILED SANDPIPER.* 

 Totanus chloropygius. 



Tringa solitaria, WILS. 



Totanus chloropygius, VIEILL. 



ABOUT the ponds of pastures, and fresh-water 

 morasses, this Sandpiper or Gambet is frequently 

 seen ; and that not quite so solitarily as Wilson found 

 it. The gizzard of one that I dissected was filled 

 with a blackish, unctuous, filamentous substance, 

 among which I detected some fragments of minute 

 water-insects, a small larva of a libellula, &c. 



One day, as I was seeking Herons in Paradise 

 marshes, I aimed at a bird twice in succession, but 

 each time the cap detonated without igniting the 

 charge : the slight sound alarmed two or three 

 Bar-tails, that were close by, and caused them to 

 rise a few yards into the air, where they remained 

 several seconds, hovering, the wings held perpen- 



* Length 8 inches, expanse 15, flexure 5, tail 2-^, rictus 1|, tarsus 

 1^, middle toe 1-^. 



