78 GRALLATORES. TOTANUS. SanpDPIPER. 
sitant ; a solitary straggler being now and then driven as far 
to the westward as the longitude of our islands during the 
periodical migration of the species from the northern to the 
more southern districts of Europe. The short specific de- 
scriptions given by Linnzus of these two nearly allied birds, 
and their rare occurrence in Britain, without doubt induced 
Dr Lartuam and others (as mentioned in the preceding ac- 
count of the Green Sandpiper) to think that they might be 
identical. His description, however, of the present bird, in 
his Index Ornithologicus, ought to have satisfied him that 
it could not be the T'ringa Aldrovandi of Ray and Wit- 
LOUGHBY, quoted as a synonym of Ochropus (and with great 
propriety, as it answers exactly to it); for he describes Gla- 
reola as having “ remiges fusca, rachi nived, secundariz 
apices margine alba,” characters which are correct, and very 
distinctive of the species. Mownrtacu, in his Ornithological 
Dictionary, has so accurately described each from personal 
inspection, as to render mistake, or a confusion of the spe- 
cies, almost impossible for any one who is enabled to com- 
pare his descriptions with the specimens of these birds. He 
has, however, in his Appendix to the Supplement of the 
same work, created some unnecessary confusion by rejecting 
the Linnean specific appellation of Glareola altogether, and 
imposing in its place the new title of T'’ringa Grallatoris 
(Long-legged Sandpiper); which confusion is still further 
increased by Mr Srepuens, in his Continuation of Suaw’s 
Zoology, giving both the Glarcola of Lixnaus, and Gralla- 
torts of Monracu as distinct species. In size, this bird is 
fully one-third less than the Ochropus, with the legs much 
longer in proportion; the tarsi of the former being one- 
eighth of an inch longer than those of the latter, and the 
naked part of the tibia is considerably longer. In addition. 
to the specimens recorded by Montacu and others, I can 
mention a beautiful one of the young bird, killed at Elling- 
ham in the month of September 1828 (now in my collection, 
and a description of which is given below) ; a second, killed 
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