WOOD SANDPIPER. 
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Totanus glareola. Temm. man. d'Orn. 422. Id. 2 Edit. ii. G54. 
Tringa glareola. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 250. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 
677. Lath. Lid. Oni. 2. 730. 
Wood Sandpiper. Penn, Arct. Zool. 2. 482, Lath. Gen. Syn. 
5. 172. 
But little is known of this scarce bird, as to the 
periodical changes of its plumage : during the spring 
it has a narrow stripe of brown between the beak and 
the eye : the top of the head and the nape are lon- 
gitudinally striped with brown and whitish : the sides 
of the head, the fore part of the neck, the breast, 
and the flanks, are whitish-ash longitudinally rayed 
with brown : the eyebrows, the throat, and the middle 
of the belly are pure white : the vent and tail-coverts 
are also white, finely striped with brown in the di- 
rection of the shafts : the back and scapulars are 
dusky, with large white and brown spots, placed on 
the edges of the webs : the wing-coverts are ashy- 
brown, with triangular cinereous-white spots on the 
edges of the feathers : the tail-feathers are barred 
alternately with brown and white, the two or three 
lateral ones having their inner webs wholly white : 
the beak is black, with its base greenish : the legs 
are greenish. Its length is seven inches and a half. 
Native of the north-eastern parts of Europe, among 
the marshy woods of Germany, Sweden, Poland, &c. : 
never in Holland or England. It breeds in the arctic 
regions, and is said to lay four eggs of a yellowish- 
green spotted with brown. 
