COMMON SANDPIPER. 607 



CRALLATORES. SCOLOPACIDJE. 



THE COMMON SANDPIPER, 



OR SUMMER SNIPE. 



Totanus hypoleucos. 



Tringa hypoleucos, Common Sandpiper, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 90. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 101. 



Totonm FLEM. Brit. An. p. 104. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol ii. p. 81. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 199. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xiii. 



Clievalier guignette, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 657. 



THE COMMON SANDPIPER is a summer visiter to this country, 

 appearing in April, leaving us again by the end of Septem- 

 ber, and is very generally known by the name of the Sum- 

 mer Snipe. Mr. Thompson sends me word that this bird 

 is also a regular summer visiter to Ireland. It is common 

 in Wales, not uncommon in Cornwall, and is found in 



