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SANDPIPER. 



some of the feathers edged with light ferruginous. In another, the 

 head and neck are dark ash-colour ; back and scapulars grey, distinctly 

 and prettily marked with large angular spots of black. These seem to 

 be young birds, of that season, in their gradation of plumage. In some 

 the wing coverts are dark brown ; others ash-colour, with more or less 

 dusky streaks ; and all the inner webs of the quills, and part of the 

 outer webs of the secondaries, white ; and the middle feathers of the 

 tail dusky. 



Whether this bird breeds with us is not yet thoroughly known. We 

 have seen them on many parts of the coast in the month of April, and 

 in July, but never in the intermediate months. Mr. Boys, of Sand- 

 wich, informs us he thinks they breed on that coast, as well as the 

 dunlin ; and we received several eggs from that gentleman found on 

 that sandy shore, which are unknown to us, and may possibly belong 

 to one of these two birds. They are not much unlike that of the black 

 tern, but smaller. 



The Sanderling is found on many of our shores, where it flocks 

 together with the dunlin, but is not so plentiful a species ; and both 

 are indiscriminately called oxbird by some persons. This is also 

 called curwillet and towwilly. It is said to be found in New South 

 Wales, where it is called, by the natives, madderque. Mr. Simmonds 

 remarks, in the Linn. Trans. 8, p. 268, that he saw this species on the 

 2nd of June, at the Mull of Cantyre. 



SAND LARK. — A name for the Ringed Plover, and the Sandpiper. 



SAND MARTIN.— A name for the Bank Swallow. 



SANDPIPER (Tringa, Brisson.) — *A genus of Waders (Gralla- 

 tores, Illiger.) There is a close resemblance between this genus and 

 that of the snipe and plover. In the former, the length of the bill in 

 that genus, and in the latter the want of a back toe, are the only 

 characteristic marks of distinction ; and these, in some species, run so 

 nearly into one another as scarcely to be divided. In the young of 

 the redshank, the bill scarcely exceeds an inch and a half in length 

 and in the grey sandpiper there is no back toe, but only a sort of spur, 

 very small.* 



SANDPIPER (Totanus hypoleucus, Temminck.) 



Tringa liypoleucus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 250. 14 Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 678. — Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. p. 734. 28._Tringa minor, Rati, Syn. p. 108. A. 6 Will. p. 223. t. 



55 — Totanus hypo'.eucus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2. p. 657. — Flem. Br. Anim. p. 



104 — Guinetta, Briss. 5. p. 183. 2. t. 16. f. 2. lb. 8vo. 2. p. 260 La Guig- 



nette, Buff. Ois. 7. p. 540.— Common Sandpiper, Br. Zool. 2. No. 204. t. 17. 

 —Ib. fol. 125 — Arct. Zool. 2. No. 388. 23.— Will. (Angl.) p. 301. t. 55 — 



Lath. Syn. 5. p. 178. 23 — Lewin's Br. Birds, 5. t. 172 Wale. Syn. 2. t. 148. 



— Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 15. 



