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SOLITARY SANDPIPER. 
(Totanus solitarius.) 
To. corpore supra Jusco albo punctato, pectore albo olivaceo-fusco 
maculato, pedibus virescentibus, rectricibiis duabus intermediis 
olivnceis. 
Sandpiper with the body above brown spotted with white, the 
breast white spotted with olive -brown, the legs greenish, the 
two middle tail-feathers olive. 
Solitary Sandpiper. (Tringa solitai-ia.) Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vii. 
p. 53.pl. \vin.f. 3. 
The Solitary Sandpiper is eight inches and a half 
long, and fifteen inches in extent : the beak is one 
inch and a quarter in length, and dusky : line over the 
eye, chin, belly, and vent, pure white : breast white, 
spotted with pale olive-brown : crown and neck above 
dark olive streaked with white : back, scapulars, and 
rump dark brown-olive, each feather marked along the 
edges with small round spots of white : wings plain, 
and of a darker tint : under tail-coverts spotted with 
black : tail slightly rounded, the five exterior fea- 
thers on each side white, broadly barred with black ; 
the two middle ones, as well as their coverts, plain 
olive : legs long, slender, and of a dusky green. 
Both sexes similar in colour. 
The above is Wilson's description of this pretty 
species, of whose habits he gives the following ac- 
count. It inhabits the highest mountains during the 
summer, from Kentucky to New York ; but is no- 
where numerous, seldom more than two or three 
V. XII. p. I. 9 
