totanin^:. 697 



India, breeding in Northern and Central Europe and Asia, and 

 laying four eggs, green or greenish-white with numerous spots. 



Gen. Actitis, Illiger. 



Syn. Tringoides, Bonap. (partly.) 



Char. — Bill moderate or rather long, slender, straight, com- 

 pressed, and accumulate, with the tip hard ; the groove of the bill 

 extending quite to the tip ; wings moderately long, with 1st 

 quill longest ; tail slightly lengthened ; tarsus rather short or 

 moderate ; toes rather long. 



This genus comprises some small Sandpipers of more or less 

 solitary habits, and universal distribution, which do not greatly 

 change their plumage in summer. 



The first species is separated as Rhyachophilus, Kaup. 



891. Actitis glareola, Gmelin. 



Tringa, apud Gmelin — Blyth, Cat. 1583 — Jerdon, Cat. 353 

 — Sykes, Cat. 193 — Hardwicke, 111. Ind. Zool., 2, pi. 51, f. 2 — 

 T. affinis. Horsf. — T. glareoloides, Hodgson — Gould, Birds of 

 Europe, pi. 315, f. 2. — Chitpka, or Chopka, or Chobaha, H. — 

 Chinna ulanka, Tel. 



The Spotted Sandpiper. 



Descr. — In winter, the plumage is deep brown on the forehead, 

 crown, back, and wings, with white and greyish spots on the back ; 

 a dusky streak between the gape and the eye, and a white 

 supercilium ; cheeks and nape dirty white with ashy-brown spots ; 

 upper tail-coverts pure white ; tail narrowly barred black and 

 white, the two outer feathers on each side entirely white ; throat 

 white ; foreneck and breast dirty white, with spots and streaks 

 of ashy-brown ; flanks barred with the same ; abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts pure white. 



Bill greenish at the base, dusky black at the tip ; irides deep 

 brown ; legs pale greenish. Length 8^ to 9 inches ; extent 1 6j ; 

 wing 5 ; tail 2 ; bill at front l r 2 ^ ; tarsus 1^. 



In summer, the feathers of the crown and nape are distinctly 

 streaked brown and white ; the feathers of the back have a large 



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