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THE SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa macularia, Spotted Sandpiper, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 79. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 105. 



Totanus FLEM. Brit. An. p. 103. 



macularius, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 84. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 199. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. viii. 



macularia, Chevalier perle, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 656. 



THE SPOTTED SANDPIPER has hitherto been included in our 

 catalogues and histories of British Birds, on the authority of 

 Edwards and Bewick ; but believing with Mr. Selby, the 

 Rev. Mr. Jenyns, and others, that the birds from which 

 Edwards and Bewick drew their representations, were only 

 specimens of our Common Sandpiper, Totanus hypoleucos, 

 the species last described, I had intended not to have 



