COMMON SANDPIPER. 



TOTANUS HYPOLEUCUS [Linn.). 



Tringa hypoleucos, Linn. S. N. i. p. 250 (1766). 

 Actitis hypoleucos, Naum. viii. p. 7; Macg. iv, p. 351. 

 Tetanus hypoleucos, Hewitson, ii. p. 333 ; Dresser, viii. 

 p. 127. 



Totanus hypoleucus, Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 446. 



Chevalier guignette, French; Fluss-VferVdufer, German; 

 Andarios, Lavandira chica, Spanish. 



This pleasant little bird is a common summer visitor 

 to almost all the streams of the United Kingdom, 

 perhaps more numerous in Scotland and Wales than 

 elsewhere ; but in my experience there is hardly a river, 

 a lake, or even a considerable pond in our country, upon 

 whose banks this Sandpiper may not be found between 

 the middle of April and the end of September. I have 

 more than once noticed a few of this species on our 

 southern coasts as late as the middle of November, but 

 such lingering is decidedly exceptional. For nesting- 

 purposes this bird prefers the neighbourhood of rapid 

 streams or gravelly lakes to that of still muddy waters. 

 The nest is composed of dry grass and rushes, moss, and 

 occasionally a few dead leaves ; it is generally well 



