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LONG-LEGGED SANDPIPER. 
(Totanus grallatoris.) 
To. pedibiis longioribiis olivaceo-viridihus, corpore fusco-cinereo, 
siibtus, nropygio, tectricibusque caudcB superioribus albis. 
Sandpiper witli long legs of an olive-green colour, the body ashy- 
brown, beneath, rump and upper tail-feathers white. 
Tringa grallatoris. Mont. Oni. Diet. Sup. App. 
Wood Sandpiper. Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. and Sup. xmth Jig. 
Long-legged Sandpiper. Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. App. 
Remarkable for the great length of its legs ; and 
is thus fully described by Montagu. *' Length nine 
inches : beak not quite an inch and a quarter long, 
the base half dusky green, the other black, slender, 
a trifle bending downwards at the point, upper man- 
dible rather the largest, tapering to a blunt point : 
irides dusky. From the beak to the eye a dusky 
streak, above which, on each side, is white passing 
over the eye : the middle of the forehead and crown 
dusky black, streaked with dirty white : coverts of 
the ears dusky : chin and throat white : neck dusky, 
closely and finely streaked with dirty white ; which 
gives it a cinereous hue, fore part lightest : breast, 
belly, sides, vent, and under tail-coverts spotless 
white : the feathers on the back dusky black, with a 
purplish gloss, marked with a dull yellowish spot on 
each side of the webs near the tip : scapulars the 
same, with several spots on the margins : the coverts 
and tertials of the wings the same, but without the 
