SPOTTED SAN'I^FlPBBt.. 
a few small longish dusky spots down the 
shafts of the feathers. By my remarks an the 
drawing of the Hen bird, I find that it was 
sent to nie in the month of May ; and I believe 
it to be a bird of passage, and very rarely seen 
in England.'^ 
BuiTon observes, that " this bird has the 
speckled plumage,.and the size, of the Throstle. 
I.t's feet," says he, " resemble those cf the 
Water Ouzel J it's nails are large, and hooked, 
particularly the hind ones; but it's bill is si- 
milar to that of the Purre, of the Dusky Sand- 
piper, and of other small shore birds ; and the 
lower part of it's leg is naked. It is, there- 
fore, wide of being a Thrush. It appears to 
be a foreign species, little related to die. Euro- 
pean, birds ; yet Edwards presumes, that it is 
common to both continents; as he received 
one from the county of Essex, where it had 
strayed, no other having ever been seen 
there." 
