SANDPIPER. 



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37.— COMMON SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Hypoleucos, Ind. Orn. ii. 734. Lin. i. 250. Fn. Suec. No. 182. Gm. Lin. i. 



G78. Gm. reise, iv. p. 174. Scop. i. No. 143. Brun. No. 174. Mailer, p. 25. 



Sepp, iii. t. p. 291. young bird. Kram. 353. Borowsk. iii. 95. 6. .Fm. He/u. 

 Totanus hypoleucos, Tem. Man. 424. id. £rf. ii. p. C57. Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 192. 

 An Pluvialis Species, Gerin. iv. t. 453. 

 Guinetta, J3r«. v. 183. t. 16. f. 2. Id. Svo. ii. 260. 

 Tringa minor, Raii, 106. A. 5. Will. 223. t. 55. 

 La Guignette, Buf. vii. 540. 

 Petite Alouette de Mer, PI. enl. 850. 

 Der gemeine Strandlaufer, Bechst. Deutsch. iii. 168. t. 8. 

 Der kleine Sandlaufer, Gunth. Nest. U. Ey. t. 100. lower figure. 

 Common Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. v. p. 178. Br. Zool. ii. No. 204. pi. 71. Id.fol. 125. 



Id. 1812. ii. p. 90. pi. 16. f. 2. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 388. Will. Engl. 301. pi. 55. 



Bewick, ii. pi. p. 104. Lewin, v. pi, 172. Id. pi. xxx. 2. the egg. Walcot, ii. 



pi. 148. Pult. Dors. p. 15. Orn. Diet. 



SIZE of the Purre ; length seven inches and a half; weight two 

 ounces. Bill brown ; irides hazel ; plumage on the upper parts very 

 glossy ; head brown, streaked with black ; margins of the eyelids, 

 all round, dirty white; over the eye a white streak ; neck dull ash- 

 colour; back and wings greenish brown, crossed with dusky, narrow 

 lines; breast and under parts white ; quills brown ; the first plain, 

 on the nine following a white spot on the inner web; tail rounded, 

 glossy, greenish brown ; the four middle feathers a little longer than 

 the rest ; the ten middle ones greenish grey brown, waved across with 

 dusky brown striae ; the two outermost but one white at the ends, 

 the exterior white, barred within with brown; legs greenish brown. 



This bird is not uncommon here in the summer, but rarely seen 

 late in the autumn : frequents the borders of ponds and rivers, where 

 it makes a nest of moss and dry leaves, generally in a hole in a bank ; 

 the eggs four or five in number, of a dirty white, marked with dusky 

 and cinereous round spots, most at the larger end ;* it has a kind of 

 piping note, which it frequently makes, at the same time flirting up 



* The ground colour not unlike that of the Knot. 

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