WOOD SANDPIPER. Class II. 



Var. a. Tringa glareola. Tr. rostro lae- orn. 730. id. Syn. v. 172. . 



Wood. vi, pedibus virescentibus, Gm. Lin. 677. 



corpore fusco albo punctate. Wood Sandpiper. Arct. Zool. 



pectore albido. Laih. Lid. ii. 188. 



TION. 



Descrip- [THIS variety is about the size of a stare. Its 

 back is of a dusky color, spotted with white ; 

 the primaries and secondaries dusky ; the last 

 tipt with white ; the breast and belly whitish ; 

 the tail barred with black and white ; the out- 

 most feathers lightest 5 the rump white; the 

 legs of a dirty green. 



Mr. Mo7itagu supposes this to be a distinct 

 species, and has given a very detailed description 

 of it in his excellent ornithological dictionary ; he 

 observes that the legs are singularly long in pro- 

 portion to the body, and by far superior in length 

 to any species of sandpiper of equal size. 



Dr. Latham, in his second supplement, is 

 inclined to believe that the Green and Wood 

 sandpipers, the T7^inga Ochropus, and the Trmga 

 Glareola, form only one species. Ed. 



