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SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 145 
Spotted Sandpiper. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 1/9. Perm. Brit. Zool. 
2. 196. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 385. Lew. Brit. Birds, 5. 173. 
Wale. Syn. 2. pi. 149. Mo)2t. Orn. Diet. 2. and Sup. Betv. 
Brit. Birds, 2. 111. 
This rare species is sometimes found in Englandj 
and Bewick has given an excellent figure of it, ac- 
companied by the following description. " Length 
eight inches : the beak is black at the tip, and fades 
into a reddish colour towards the base : a white streak 
is extended over each eye, and a brownish patch be- 
tween them and the beak : the whole upper part of 
the plumage is of a glossy lightish brown, with green 
reflections : the head and neck are marked with 
longish small dark spots : on the back, scapulars, and 
wing-coverts the spots are larger, and of a triangular 
shape : the rump is plain : the greater quills are 
dusky : secondaries tipped with white ; as are also 
the greater and lesser coverts, which form two ob- 
lique white lines across the extended wings : the two 
middle feathers of the tail are greenish brown ; the 
side ones white, crossed with dusky lines : the breast, 
belly, and vent are white, but in the female spotted 
with brown : legs of a dirty flesh-colour." 
The specimen figured by Bewick, and from whose 
figure the accompanying plate is taken, was shot on 
the moors near Bellingham in Northumberland, in 
the month of August. The one noticed by Edwards 
was killed in Essex. Its native place appears to be 
the higher latitudes of North America, where it is 
supposed to breed : it has been observed on the 
coasts of the Baltic, and in various parts of Ger- 
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