BRITISH BIRDS 



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THE WOOD SANDPIPER. 



LONG-LEGGED SANDPIPER. 



(Tofantis Glarcola, Temm. Chevalier sylvain, 

 Temm.) 



THIS species of Tringa appears to be a rare bird 

 in this country, and to find proper names for it has 

 been attended with doubts and difficulties. Latham 

 names it glareola, but treats of it as a variety of 

 the Tringa ochropus (Green Sandpiper) of Linnaeus, 

 and the Tringa littorea, or young of the same, and 

 also as the Shore Sandpiper of the Arctic Zoology. 

 Montagu considers this bird to be quite distinct 

 from the Green Sandpiper or any of its varieties, 

 and wishes to change its name from Wood Sand- 

 piper to Long-legged Sandpiper, to prevent its 



