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WOOD SANDPIPER. 
being seen together. It takes short, low flights ; runs 
nimbly about among the mossy margins of the moun- 
tain springs, brooks, and pools, occasionally stopping, 
looking at you, and perpetually nodding its head : it 
is so unsuspicious, and so little acquainted with man, 
as to permit one to approach within a few yards of it 
without appearing to take any notice, or to be the 
least alarmed. At the approach of cold weather it 
descends to the muddy shores of the large rivers, 
where it is occasionally met with, singly, on its way 
to the south. It breeds on Pocano mountain, in 
Pennsylvania, arriving there early in May, and depart- 
ing in September. It is usually silent, unless when 
suddenly flushed, when it utters a sharp whistle. 
This species is greatly allied to the preceding, and 
differs from the following chiefly in having the two 
middle tail-feathers brown, like the back ; whereas in 
the Wood Sandpiper they are rayed with alternate 
bands of brown and white. 
WOOD SANDPIPER. 
(Totanus glareola.) 
To. corpore Jusco albo punctata, pectore albido, pedibus virescen- 
tibus, rectricibus duabus intermediis Jusco alboque transversim 
Jasciatis. 
Sandpiper with the body brown spotted M'ith white^ the breast 
whitish, the legs greenish, the two middle tail-feathers trans- 
versely fasciated with brown and white. 
