NODDING SANDPIPER. 
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Inhabits the Labrador coast during the autumn. 
In April it arrives in the United States of America, 
where it remains till November: it delights in watery- 
bogs, marshes, and the muddy regions of creeks and 
inlets ; in these places it breeds, the female laying 
four dingy-white eggs, irregularly marked with black. 
It is a noisy and clamorous species, and its voice is 
heard at a great distance : from this circumstance it 
is much dreaded by sportsmen, as it is continually 
on the watch, and upon the appearance of any 
one it immediately sounds the alarm, and totally 
frustrates his intentions. Its cry is so loud that it 
may be heard when the bird is so high in the atmo- 
sphere as to be out of the reach of vision. 
NODDING SANDPIPER. 
(Totanus nutans,) 
To. cinereus ferrugineo varius, ahdomine uropi/gio caudaque albis, 
collo subtus pectore femoribiis uropygioque maculis, caiiddjasciis 
nigris. 
Sandpiper varied with cinereous and rust colour, the abdomen, 
rump, and tail white, the neck beneath, the breast, thighs, and 
rump spotted and the tail barred with black. 
Scolopax nutans. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 659. Lalh. hid. Orn. 2. 
723. 
Nodding Snipe. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 370. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 
153. 
The Nodding Sandpiper is thus described by Dr. 
Latham : " Size of the Common Snipe: beak slender, 
