SANDPIPER. GRALLATORES. TOTANUS. 79 
at Prestwick Car in 1830, and now in the museum of the 
Natural History Society of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; and a 
third, shot at White-mare Pool, in the county of Durham, 
and now in the possession of Mr Epwarp BackHouse. 
It is a native of the interior of Continental Europe, and 
has a wide geographical distribution, being found in India ; 
and I have specimens also from the Cape of Good Hope. 
Moist woods and swamps producing willows and other brush- 
wood are its favourite habitats, where it lives solitary, or, in 
the breeding season, in pairs. It retires within the Arctic Nest, &e. 
circle to breed, and its nest is made by the side of some rill 
or pool. The eggs, four in number, are said to be of a yel- 
lowish or oil-green colour, spotted with brown.—It feeds up- Food. 
on worms and insects. 
Pirate 16. Fig. 3. Represents the Wood Sandpiper of the 
natural size. 
Between the bill and eyes is a dark hair-brown streak. General 
Crown of the head, back, and wings, are hair-brown, ees : 
with a tinge of grey, but no gloss of green. Margins 
' of the dorsal and scapular feathers, and also the wing- 
coverts, are marked with small white and greyish-white 
spots, ‘The secondaries are margined and tipped with 
white. The greater quills are hair-brown, the first one 
having a white shaft. Nape of the neck, cheeks, sides 
of the breast, and the flanks are greyish-white, with 
hair-brown rays. Eyelids, throat, belly, and abdomen 
white. ‘The lower part of the back is blackish-grey, 
having the feathers finely margined with white. Rump 
and upper tail-coverts white; the latter with a brown 
streak down their shafts. Tail white, barred with hair- 
brown ; the outer feathers having their inner webs pure 
white. The wings, when closed, reach to the end of 
the tail. The bill is black, with a green tinge towards 
the base. Legs and toes greenish-grey. 
In the summer plumage, the spots of white upon the back 
