SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER. 157 
eye a whitish mark ; chin and fore part of the neck 
white, mottled a little with brown on the throat : 
breast and sides of the body ash-colour : middle of the 
belly white : legs yellowish-green. Inhabits Eimeo 
and Palmerston Isles." 
SHAKP-TAILED SANDPIPER. 
(Totanus acuminatus.) 
To. supra Jiiscus, pluwis dorsalibus Jerrugineo tectricibus griseo 
marginatis, subtus albidus, pectore sublutescente, rectricibus 
acuminatis. 
Sandpiper above browD;, with the dorsal feathers edged with rust- 
colour and the coverts with grey, beneath whitish, the breast 
somewhat yellowish, the tail-feathers acuminated. 
Totanus acuminatus. Horsjield. Lin. Trans, yiin. 192, 
Inhabits Java. 
