ILLUSTRATIONS 



BRITISH BIRDS. 



GRALLATORES. SCOLOPACIDM. 



PLATE CLXXXI. 



WOOD SANDPIPER. 



ToTANUS GLAREOLA. 



The Wood Sandpiper was not formerly considered to 

 be a visitor to Great Britain, until Colonel Montagu, with 

 his usual discrimination, perceived that a species occasionally 

 met with, and which was considered by his contemporaries 

 as simply a variety of the green sandpiper, exhibited the 

 characters assigned by Linnaeus to his T.glareola. These 

 characters, when once pointed out, are sufficiently distinguish- 

 able ; so that no ornithologist of the present day, who examines 

 with his own eyes specimens of the two species which he 

 may chance to obtain, can possibly make any mistake be- 

 tween them. 



At the time, however, when Colonel Montagu made 



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