SANDPIPER. GRALLATORES. TOTANUS. SI 
COMMON SANDPIPER. 
Toranus Hypotevucos, Temm. 
PLATE XV. Fis. 3. 4. 
Totanus Hypoleucos, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 657.—Shaw’s Zool. 12. 142. 
—Filem. Br. Anim. I. 104. No. 143. 
Tringa Ei ypoleness Linn. Syst. 1. 250. 14.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 678.—Lath. Ind. 
Ornith. 2. 734. 28. 
Tringa minor, Raii Syn. 108. A. 6.—Wiil. 223. t. 55. 
Le Guinette, Buff: Ois. 7. 540. 
Chevalier Guinette, Temm. Man. 2. 657. 
Trillender Strandlaiifer, Bechst. N aturg. Deut. 4. 295.— Meyer, Tasschenb. 
Deut. 2. 389. 
Common Sandpiper, Br. Zool. 2. No. 204. t. 71.—Arct. Zool. 2. No. 388. 
—Wiil. (Angl.) 301. t. 55. aes By n. 178. 23.—Mont. Ornith. Dict.— 
Bewick’s Br. Birds, 2. 104.—Ib. 2. 111. the Young.—Shaw’s Zool. 12. 
142.—Filem. Br. Anim. 1. 104. No. 143. 
Spotted Sandpiper, Bewick’s Br. Birds, 2. 111. 
Provinci1aL—Willy-wicket, Water-junket, Summer Snipe. 
Tuis active little bird is a regular periodical visitant, and Periodical 
during summer is the well known inhabitant of the margins amas 
of all our rivers and lakes. It usually makes its first ap- 
pearance about the 20th of April, and I have observed that 
if suffered to breed unmolested, the same pair (at least so it 
may be presumed) will return for many successive seasons to 
the locality previously occupied. In this country its migra- 
tions extend to the northern parts of the mainland of Scot- 
land, as it is known in Caithness, which appears to be its 
boundary in this longitude, as it is not noticed by Low in 
his Natural History of the Orkneys, and Dr Friemine, in 
his History of British Animals, states it to be wanting in 
these islands. It is very abundant upon the shores of the 
Scottish fresh-water lakes, and upon Loch Awe in July 
(when the young broods begin to fly), I have at one view 
seen three or four families on the wing crossing over or skim- 
ming along the edges of the lake. 'The Common Sandpiper 
is a bird of most lively habits, having its body in continual 
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