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COMMON SANDPIPER. 
the feathers on the top of the head and of the back, 
the scapulars and wing-coverts, of a dusky-brown, 
edged with a broad yellowish margin ; the greater 
feathers, immediately impending the quills, have 
small diagonal rays of very deep brown : on the face 
and on the sides of the head are very small brown 
dots : the tips of the quills are whitish ; and the legs 
are ashy-green. 
Temminck, who has described this species as 
above, says that it inhabits the north of Europe, on 
the borders of the sea and rivers ; migrating along 
the eastern provinces as far as the Mediterranean ; 
but never in the direction of the coasts. It lives 
upon insects and worms, and is supposed to nidifi- 
cate in the Arctic regions. 
COMMON SANDPIPER. 
(Totanus liypoleucos.) 
To. corpore cinereo lituris J'uscis, suhtus albo, pedibus cinereis. 
Sandpiper with a cinereous body, with brown lines, beneath 
white ; the legs ash-colour. 
Totanus liypoleucos. Temm. man. d'Orn. 424. Id. 2 Edit. ii. 
657. 
Tringa hypoleucos. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 250. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 
1. 678. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 734. 
Guinetta Briss. Orn. 5. 183. p^. 16./. 2. 
Tringa minor. Raii, Syn. 108. A. 6. 
La Guignette. Biif. Ois. 7. 540. 
La petite Alouette de mer. Bu^'. PI. Enl. 850. 
