1.54. 
TELL-TALE SANDPIPER. 
(Totanus melanoleuciis.) 
To. corpore macuUs, uropygio caiidaque Jasciis albis nigrisquc, 
remigihus primoribus nigricantibus, pedibus Jlavis. 
Sandpiper vvitli the body spotted, and the rump and tail haiuled 
with white and black, the primary quills dusky, the legs yellow. 
Scolopax melanoleuca. Gniel. Syst. Nat. 1. 659. Lalh.Ind. Orn. 
2. 723. 
Totanus vociferus. Sabine. Frank. Journ. App. 687. 
Stone Snipe. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 376. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 152. 
Tell-tale Godwit. (Scolopax vociferus.) JVils. Anicr. Oni. v. vii. 
p. 57. pi' Iviii.y, 5. 
Similar in appearance, but much larger than the 
Yellow-shanked Sandpiper : its length is fourteen 
inches and a half: beak dark horn colour, and slightly 
bent upwards : space round the eye, chin, and throat, 
pure white, speckled with black : general colour of 
the upper parts of the plumage ashy-brown, thickly 
spotted with black or dull white, each feather being 
banded and spotted on the edge with black : wing 
quills black : some of the primaries, and all of the 
secondaries, with their coverts, spotted round their 
margins with black and white : head and neck above 
streaked with black and white : belly and vent pure 
white: rump white dotted with black : tail also white 
barred with brown : the wings, when closed, reach 
beyond the tail : thighs naked two inches above the 
knee : legs rich orange-yellow : vent sometimes s^^otted 
with black, under parts with brown. Both sexes re- 
semble each other. 
