Sanppiper. GRALLATORES. TOTANUS. 85 
Tue authority upon which this bird ranks as a rare Bri- Rare visi- 
tish visitant, seems to rest solely on the description given by ag 
Mr Epwarps of a bird that was shot in Essex, but which 
(as I have before remarked with regard to that figured and 
described by Bewrcx as Totanus macularius) appears to be 
nothing more than Totanus hypoleucos ; and the specimens 
also from which my figures were taken, though supposed to 
have been killed in England, I am afraid cannot be satis- 
factorily substantiated as such. According to 'TEmMINcK, 
it is sometimes met with on the coast of the Baltic, and in 
parts of Germany, but never in Holland. This distribu- 
tion appears singular; and, as an American species, it is dif- 
ficult to account for its appearance so far out of the line of 
its migrations. In the United States it is very common, and, 
like the Sandpiper of this country, to which it is closely al- 
lied, is there known as a summer visitant. During that sea- 
son, it is found distributed throughout the interior, inhabit- 
ing, in great numbers, the banks of the various rivers and 
lakes with which that country abounds. Its manners and 
economy appear to be very similar to those of our own spe- 
cies; and in perusing Witsoy’s animated and graphic ac- 
count of this bird in his excellent American Ornithology *, 
we can scarcely divest ourselves of the idea that he is not de- 
scribing Totanus hypoleucos. 'The same continual motion 
of the tail equally distinguishes both kinds ; and their mode 
of nidification, the colour of the eggs, their food, and other Nest, &c. 
particulars, are all much alike. It quits the United States ae 
in October for more southern latitudes, and is supposed to 
winter in South America and the West Indian islands. 
PuiarTeE 17. Represents the male and female of the natural 
size, which is rather less than T'otanus hypoleucos. 
Under mandible of the bill orange-yellow; the upper and General 
tip brown. The eye-streak and orbits white. Head, ed 
and the whole of the upper parts pale hair-brown, glossed 
* See Wixson’s American Ornithology, vol. vii. p. 64. pl. 59. fig. 1. 
