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The Commoii Sandpiper of Europo {T. hijpoleucus),^ the only other known species of the genus, 

 "reatly resembles the American Spotted Sandpiper (T. macularius), but is entirely unspotted 

 beneath, and otherwise dili'erent. 



Tringoides macularius. 



THE SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa mncularia, Linn. S. N. 1. 1766, 24!) (based on Tnmja muculala, Edw. IL 139, pi. 277, tig. 2 ; 



Tardus aquaticiis, Briss. V. 255). — Wii.sox, Am. Orn. VII. 1813, 60, pi. 59, fig. 1. 

 Totaiius mimUarius, Tem.m. Man. 1S15, 422. — NuTT. Man. II. 1834, 162. — Aud. Orn. Biog. IV. 



1838, 81, pi. 310 ; Synop. 1839, 242 ; B. Am. V. 1842, 303, pi. 342. 

 Trinrjoidcs imtcularius, (JiiAY, Gen. B. IIL 1849, 574. — Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 735.— 



Baiuu, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 543. — Coces, Key, 1872, 260 ; Check List, 1873, no. 436 ; 2d 



ed. 1882, no. 638 ; Birds N. W. 1874, 501. — Ridgw. Nom. N. Am. B. ISSl, no. 557. 

 "Tringa notala, Ii.i.icer" (Oiiav). 

 Aciilis IViedi, Bonai'. {fuk Gray). 



Hab. The whole of North and Middle America, and South America as far as Brazil ; occa- 

 sional in Europe ; no Greenland record. Breeds throughout temperate North America. 



Sp. Char. Small ; bill rather longer than the head, straight, slender ; long grooves m both 

 mandibles ; wing rather long, pointed ; tail medium, rounded ; legs rather long, lower third of 

 the tibia naked ; toes long, margined, and flattened underneath, outer connected with the middle 

 toe by a large membrane, inner very slightly connected to the middle toe. Adult: Upper parts 

 greenish ashy, with a somewhSt metallic or bronzed lustre, and with numerous sagittate, lanceolate, 

 and irregular, mostly transveree, spots of browni.sh black, having the same lustre. Line over the 

 eye and entire under parts white, with numeroirs circular and oval spots of brownish black over 

 the whole lower surface, smaller on the throat, largest on the abdomen. Primaries plain dusky ; 

 tail dark ashy, the outer feathers with dusky and white transverse spots on their terminal portion ; 

 axillars inmiaculate white. Young : Above, greenish ashy, the wings with narrow transverse bars 

 of black and ochraceous, most numerous on the coverts. Beneath, white, without any spots, and 

 with an ashy suffusion across the jugulum. Downy chick : Above, yellowish gra}', with a narrow 



1 Tringoides htpoleucus. The Common Sandpiper of Europe. 



Tringa hypokucos, LiNN. S. K. ed. 10, 1758, 149 ; ed. 12, I. 1766, 250. 



Adilis hrjpoleucus, Boie, Isis, 1822, 649. — Naum. Vog. Deutschl. VIII. 1836, 7, pi. 194. — Keys. 



& Blas. Wirh. Eur. p. 73. 

 Tringoides hypoleuca, GPwAY, List Gen. 1841, 88. 

 Tringa leucnptcra, Pali.. Zoogr. 11.1831, 196. 

 Totanus guinetta, Leach, Syst. Cat. Br. Mas. 30. 

 Actitis cinclus, Boie, Isis, 1826, 327. 

 Aclitis stagnalis, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. 649. 

 Common Sandpiper, Mont. Orn. Diet. ; Bewick, Yarrell, et ArCT. 



