232 snipe. 



rising and falling with the waves, but avoids coming in contact with 

 them : in breeding time retires within shore, and lays from four to 

 six eggs, a little bigger than those of a Starling, marked with pale, 

 obscure spots; twitters like the Swallow: is not a very shy bird; 

 often caught in snares, and the flesh is accounted good food ; the 

 feathers used for stuffing, with those of other birds. 



A.— Totanus naevius, Bris. v. 200. t. 18. f. 2. Id. Svo.ii. 264. 

 Striated Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. v. 176. 21. A. 



Smaller than the last ; the upper parts of the head, neck, and 

 back, blackish, margined with rufous grey ; scapulars the same, but 

 barred with grey on the sides ; lower part of the back and rump 

 white ; fore part, as far as the breast, mixed black and white, 

 verging to rufous on the sides ; breast and belly white, marked with 

 minute black spots ; lower belly plain white ; wing coverts grey 

 brown; some of them crossed at the ends with rufous grey and 

 black ; quills dusky, within hoary ; shaft of the first white ; upper 

 and under tail coverts, the sides, and tail, barred black and white : 

 this seems much allied to the last, though varying somewhat in 

 description. Brisson's two figures do not differ sufficiently to form 

 distinct species. These seem to be much allied to the Selninger 

 Sandpiper. 



B. — One, answering to the general description of the above, 

 frequents the ponds of Savannah, in Georgia, in small flocks, in 

 March. It is, according to Mr. Abbot, nine inches and a half in 

 length. It differs, however, in having the rump and tail black, and 

 was sent to him under the name of the Black-rumped Sandpiper. 

 We have also seen a similar one brought from the coast of America, 

 but the particular part not mentioned. 



