WOOD SANDPIPER. 605 



land or France, and then in woody marshes. It is seen in 

 Provence, at Genoa, in Italy, and in Sicily. Dr. Calvert 

 gave me a specimen which he ohtained in Malta. Mr. 

 Selby mentions having seen specimens from the Cape of 

 Good Hope ; and Dr. Andrew Smith also brought speci- 

 mens from South Africa. In the extensive collection of 

 Sir William Jardine, Bart. I saw skins of this bird which 

 had been received from India, and Colonel Sykes and 

 Major Franklin also brought specimens from different parts 

 of India. The Totanus affinis of Dr. Horsfield, included 

 among the birds of Java, is considered to be our Wood 

 Sandpiper ; and Mr. Gould mentions having seen skins of 

 this bird from Chili and the Islands of the Pacific. 



This bird is a little smaller than the Green Sandpiper ; 

 the beak greenish black, except at the base of the lower 

 mandible, which is pale brown; the irides dusky brown; 

 from the base of the upper mandible to the eye a dusky 

 patch ; over that and over the ear- coverts a white streak ; 

 the top of the head, and back of the neck, wing-coverts, 

 and tertials, greenish brown, each feather with buffy white 

 spots on the margin, some of which are triangular in shape, 

 others more elongated ; primaries uniform greenish black ; 

 upper tail- co verts white : tail-feathers with six or more 

 narrow transverse white bars, on a ground colour of green- 

 ish black ; chin white ; sides of the neck, throat, and 

 breast, streaked downwards with ash brown lines on a 

 ground of dull greyish white ; belly, vent, and under tail- 

 coverts white ; sides, axillary plume, and under wing- 

 coverts white, with a few transverse dusky bars ; legs, toes, 

 and claws, olive green. 



The whole length not quite nine inches. From the car- 

 pal joint to the end of the first quill-feather, which is the 

 longest in the wing, five inches. 



