478 LONG-LEGGED SANDPIPER. 
by the long and delicate legs and toes, as well as some other 
peculiarities easier to perceive than to express by words. As 
a species, 1n form, dimensions, and especially in plumage, 
this bird greatly resembles Tringa subarquata of 'Temminck 
(Numenius Africanus, Lath.), from which it is, however, 
clearly distinguished by its still longer and semipalmated feet, 
in which latter only it resembles 7’. semipalmata. It cannot 
for a moment be mistaken for any other Zringa, differing 
widely from all, and by a complication of anomalies resembling 
more in general garb and plumage a Yotanus than a Tringa. 
We are unable to say much of the habits of this curious 
sandpiper, further than that we met with it in the month of 
July 1826 near a small fresh-water pond at Long Branch. 
Being there in company with my friend Mr Cooper, we 
observed a flock flying about, at which I fired, and killed the 
one here represented. On first picking it up, I mistook it for 
a time for 7. subarquata, a species very rare in the United 
States, though one of the most common in Italy, but was 
undeceived upon observing the web between the toes. This 
is the only specimen I have ever seen, though the gentleman 
just mentioned informs me that he has recently procured 
another, that was shot in the month of May on the south shore 
of Long Island. 
This new species is nearly nine and a half incheslong. The 
bill, much longer than the head, is decidedly subarched, and 
measures one inch and five-eighths, and is black. The general 
plumage is of the same grey colour usualin other sandpipers : 
the crown is dusky, mixed with whitish and blackish, and 
with a little bright rusty on the margins; a broad whitish 
line is above tle eye; between the bill and eye dusky, a patch 
of rust colour on the auriculars: the neck above and on the 
sides is mixed with whitish; the back and scapulars black, 
the feathers tipped with dusky grey, and marked with pale 
rusty ; the rump is plain dusky grey, and the upper tail- 
coverts white, regularly banded with black. The throat is 
whitish, obsoletely dotted with blackish ; the whole under 
