SANDPIPER. 283 



Another, called Tuntunna, was in colour much the same ; but 

 the breast had a mixture of dusky, and the feathers of the wings 

 with pale margins; tail pale, crossed with six or eight dusky bars 

 on each of the feathers; found also at Java, and there called Trinil 

 batu, Trinil gung, &c. 



38.— TOBAGO SANDPIPER. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill three quarters of an inch, dusky ; 

 all the upper parts of the body, wings, and tail, dusky greenish ash- 

 colour, not unlike the Common Sandpiper ; sides of the head, 

 including the eye, and all beneath, pure white; wing coverts marked 

 with dusky, curved bars, as in that bird ; quills black, nearly 

 equalling the tail in length ; legs pale greenish brown. 



Inhabits Tobago. — In the collection of General Davies. 



39— SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa macularia, lnd. Orn. ii. 734. Lin. i. 249. Gm. Lin. i. 672. 



Totanus macularia, Tern. Man. 423. Id. Ed. 2d. 656. 



Tringa maculata, Spotted Tringa, Bartr. Trav. 292. 



Turdus aquaticus, Bris. v. 255. Id. 8vo. ii. 275. 



La Grive d'Eau, Buf. viii. 140. 



Der gefleckte Kiebiss, Bechst. Deuts. iii. 150. * 



Spotted Tringa, Edw. pi. 277. f. 2. 



Spotted Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. v. 179. Br. Zool. ii. No. 196. Id.fol. 124. Id. 1812. 



ii. p. 79. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 385. Bewick, ii. pi. p. 111. Lewin, v. pi. 173. 



Wale. ii. pi. 149. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. Amer. Orn. vii. 60. pi. 59. f. 1. 



SIZE of a Thrush ; length nearly eight inches. Bill dusky, 



with a reddish base ; over the eye a white streak ; upper parts 



greenish brown ; head marked with small, longish, dusky spots, 



increasing on the neck to the back, where they are much larger ; 



rump plain ; shoulders and wings marked with the same colour, but 



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