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Common Sandpiper, Lath. Tringa Hypoleucos, L. 

 Enl. 850. Tot. MaculariuSy Wils. VII., LIX. 

 1. 2. 



The smallest of all ; about the size of the sea lark ; 

 bronzed, greenish-brown above, with transverse ful- 

 vous and black marks on the wing ; in front and 

 underneath, white ; rump and middle tail-quills of 

 the colour of the back, the lateral ones alone radi- 

 ated with white and black as in the other species. 

 The young has a clear fulvous border to the feathers 

 of the back, and to the small wing-coverts. This 

 bird lives like the green sandpiper, and in the same 

 places. 



Among the foreign totani we must particularly 

 remark the North American species, with gross bill, 

 and semipalmate feet. (Scolopaa; Semipalmata, L.) 

 Encyc. Meth. pi. d'Orn. pi. LXXI., f 1, Wils. VII., 

 LVL, 3. 



Almost as large as our first species, with shorter 

 and grosser bill ; plumage, grey-brown above, whitish 

 underneath, spotted with brownish on the neck and 

 chest ; toes well bordered and palmations, almost 

 equal and considerable. Totanus SemipalmatuSy 

 Temm. M. Ch. Bonaparte forms on this character 

 his sub-genus Catoptrophorus. 



Add to the common totani — 



Tot. SpeculiferuSy Cuv. 



Very like Semipalmatus^ but higher on the liinbs, 

 with longer bill, and feet of the usual character. 



