WHITE SANDPIPER. 
151 
neck dusky-white : back of the neck marked with 
brown streaks, and clouds of the same : on the sides 
next the wings a few clouded crescents : beak and 
legs pale yellow : irides blue. Inhabits New South 
Wales." 
WHITE SANDPIPER. 
(Totanus candidus.) 
To. rostro pedibusqiie aarantiis, corpore albicante recti ici bus can- 
didis griseo Jasciatis. 
Sandpiper with the beak and legs gold colour, the body whitish, 
the tail-feathers white fasciated with grey. 
Scolopax Candida. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1 . 668. Lath. Ind. Orn. 
2. 722. 
Totanus candidus. Briss. Orn. 5. 207. 
Le Chevalier blanc. Buff. Ois. 7. 519. 
White Redshank. Edxv. pi. 139. Lath. Ge^i. Syn. 5. 151. 
Length eleven inches : beak nearly two inches 
long, orange-coloured, with its tip black : the upper 
part of the head, the neck, back, scapulars, lesser 
wing and upper tail -coverts are white, varied with 
transverse rufous grey streaks : the greater wing- 
coverts are dirty white : the primary quills are grey, 
the secondaries and tail white, transversely spotted 
with reddish grey : the fore part of the head, the 
throat, all the under parts of the body, the vent and 
rump are pure white : legs orange. Native of Hud- 
son's Bay. 
