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Totanus glareola. Wood-Sandpipek. 



Tringa glareola Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 149 : 



Sweden. 



Totanus glareola (Gmel.); B. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 175; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 607. 

 Ehyacophilus glareola Shai-pe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, 



p. 491. 



Glareola, a diminutive from gldrea=gvajye\, from the bird's haunting gravelly 

 places (c/. Klein, Hist. Av. Prodr. 1750, p. 100). 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Bird of Passage, 

 regular and tolerably numerous 'in autumn, but less frequent 

 in spring, on the east and south-east coasts of England ; 

 on the south coast it is less often met with. On the west 

 coast of England and Wales it is seldom seen. On Fair Isle, 

 Shetlands, it occurs almost every year, but to Scotland and 

 Ireland is a rare visitor. It has nested once in Northum- 

 berland and probably in Norfolk. 



General Dist^'ibation. — The Wood-Sandpiper breeds in 

 northern Europe and Asia, from Scandinavia to Kamchatka 

 and Bering Island, southwards to the valley of the Danube, 

 possibly in parts of north Italy, and occasionally in Spain ; 

 also in Turkestan, Mongolia, and north China. It winters 

 in the Mediterranean countries, Africa, southwards to the 

 Cape, southern Asia, Japan, and the Philippine Islands, 

 ranging through the Malay Archipelago to Australia. It is 

 accidental in the Hawaiian Islands. 



Totanus SOlitariuS. Solit.^ry Sandpiper. 



Tringa SOlitaria Wilson, Amer. Orn. vii. 1813, p. 53, 

 pi. 58. fig. 3 : Pennsylvania. 



Totanus solitarius (JVils.) ; B. 0. IT. List, 1st ed. 188.3, p. 175; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 611. 

 Helodi-omas solitarius Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, 



p. 444. 

 Sdlitdrhis = living alone, soUts, 



