The ( livy-rumped Sandpiper is an inhabitant of the coast and coastal districts, wliere tidal 

 rivers promise the measure of salt and brackish water it delights in. About Port Kssington, where it 

 was first seen, it frequented the sandy beaches and rocks just above high watermark, also the salt water 

 lakes and swamps about the settlement; there are certain seasons of the year when it congregates in 

 enormous Books in company with Stints and Plovers. 



Like all Wading birds, its food consists of aquatic insects and their larva 1 , small shelled molluscs, 

 &C, Indigestible material easily assimilated by their muscular stomachs. 



The colouring of the sexes is almost the same. 



The general appearance of this little bird is a delicate grey, which is much lighter in shade in 

 winter than in summer; the under surfaces is a greyish white and destitute of its brown summer 

 freckles; primaries, dark blown: hides, reddish-brown; bill, blackish-brown, except the base of the under 

 mandible, which is scarlet ; legs and feet, hyacinth-red. 



Total length, 8| inches. 



Habitat-: Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, Rockingham Hay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 Richmond and Clarence River Districts, New South Wales, South Coast of New Guinea. (Ramsay.) 



