SANDPIPER. 275 



beneath dirty white; across the breast verging to ash-colour; quills 

 and tail dusky ; all but the two middle feathers of the latter barred 

 with white on the outer webs. 



Inhabits King George's Sound. — Sir Joseph Banks. This is 

 probably the same with one mentioned by Mr. Abbot, found in 

 Georgia, and answering in general description, but in that the two 

 middle tail feathers are deep brown, spotted white on the outer webs., 

 the others crossed with eight bars of dusky black ; is found also at 

 Trinidad. One met with at Buenos Ayres the end of November, by 

 Azara, was probably the same, but the tail feathers were mutilated. 



31.— WOOD SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Glareola, Lid. Orn. ii. 750. Lin. i. 250. 13. /3. Faun. suec. No. 184. Gm. 



Lin. i. 677. Lin. Trans, i. 128. pi. 2. Id. ii. 323. 

 Totanus Glareola, Tern. Man. 422. Id. Ed. 2d. 655. 

 Tringa Solitaria, Solitary Sandpiper, Amer. Orn. vii. 53. pi. 58. f. 3 ? 

 Wood Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. v. 172. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 482. G. Orn. Diet. !$ Supp. 



pi. in ditto. 



THIS is nine inches long, and twenty-four broad. Bill one 

 inch and a half long; between the bill and eye a blackish line ; 

 over the eye a white space, under the chin whitish ; top of the head, 

 neck, and breast, brownish ash-colour, with darker streaks, espe- 

 cially on the breast and cheeks ; back dusky olive-brown, marked 

 pretty thickly with small whitish spots ; tail barred black and white, 

 the two outmost feathers almost entirely white, and the nearer to the 

 outside the white is more in proportion ; quills dark, dusky brown ; 

 wing coverts dusky olive-brown, next the back marked with whitish 

 spots; legs greenish. 



This was shot at Battle, in Sussex ; by some thought to be a 

 Variety of the Green Species. It seems greatly allied, if not the 

 same, with the Solitary Sandpiper of the American Ornithology , 

 which comes into Pennsylvania, in May, and departs in September. 



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