SOLITAKY SANDPIPEK 339 



the outer one, dusky (cf. that of the Wood-Sand[ 

 axillaries, smoke-black, with narrow angular lines of white 

 (Plate XXXV.) ; central tail-feathers, white at their basal 

 portions, and broadly barred with black near their ends ; 

 lateral tail-feathers, tipped with a few black spots, the outer 

 pair being pure white ; cheek, sides of neck, and middle 

 of upper breast, whitish with brownish streaks ; sides of 

 breast, greyish-brown ; chin, front of neck, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts, white. 



Adult female nuptial. Similar to the male plumage, but 

 the markings are less pronounced. 



Adult winter, male and female. The back and wings 

 are more finely spotted with white, and the neck is much 

 whiter than in the nuptial plumage. 



Immature, male and female. Resembles the adult 

 winter-plumage, but the feathers of the back, the 

 scapulars, and wing-coverts exhibit only a faint gloss, are 

 not so spotted as in the adult, and are margined with 

 light yellowish-bronze. 



BEAK. Blackish-brown. 



FEET. Dull green. 



IRIDES. Blackish-brown. 



AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 



TOTAL LENGTH 9'5 in. 



WING 5'5 



BEAK 1-2 



TARSO-METATARSUS ... ... 1*25 ,, 



EGG 1-55 X 11 in. 



SOLITARY SANDPIPER. Totanus solitarius (Wilson). 



Coloured Figures. Dresser, ' Birds of Europe,' vol. ix, pi. 714 ; 

 Lilford, Coloured Figures,' vol. v, pi. 48. 



There are but three British occurrences recorded of this 

 very rare American visitor. One from Scotland, a bird 

 taken on the banks of the Clyde, " some years ago " (E. 

 Gray, 'Ibis/ 1870, p. 292); another from the SciJly Isles, 

 obtained September 21st, 1882 ; the third was procured 



