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parts, even to the ends of the under tail-coverts white, but 

 ornamented with numerous well defined round spots of 

 dusky greenish brown ; the legs and toes, flesh colour ; the 

 claws, brown. 



The whole length about six inches and three-quarters. 

 From the carpal joint to the end of the wing four inches ; 

 the first quill-feather the longest in the wing. 



The whole length measurement assigned by M. Temminck 

 in his Manual for Totanus liypoleucos, is seven inches three 

 lines, French ; that for Totanus macularius eight inches, 

 French ; surely this last must be a misprint. I have never 

 seen a specimen of T. macularius that approached to eight 

 inches, and all authors agree that T. hypoleucos is the larger 

 bird of the two. 



The young chicks on leaving the shell are covered with 

 down of a dull drab colour, marked with a single streak of 

 black down the middle of the back, and with another behind 

 the ear. 



M. Temminck, in the fourth Part of his Manual, page 

 418, says, " the young of the year of this species are easily 

 distinguished from those of the Common Sandpiper, 

 because the under parts always bear some indications 

 of the brown oval shaped spots disposed over the breast 

 and belly, notwithstanding these spots do not appear till 

 the winter season ; in the early part of autumn the under 

 parts are wholly white." 



This Spotted Sandpiper, Totanus macularius, of Tem- 

 minck, must not be confounded with the Totanus maculatus 

 of Bechstein, which is only another systematic name for our 

 Spotted Redshank, figured at page 587. 



