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The Common Sandpiper of Europe (T. hypoleucus)} the only other known species of the genus, 
greatly resembles the American Spotted Sandpiper ( T . macularius ), but is entirely unspotted 
beneath, and otherwise different. 
Tringoides macularius. 
THE SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 
Tringa macularia, Linn. S. N. 1. 1766, 249 (based on Tringa maculata, Edw. II. 139, pi. 277, fig. 2 ; 
Tardus aquaticus, Beiss. V. 255). — Wilson, Am. Orn. VII. 1813, 60, pi. 59, fig. 1. 
Totcmus macularius, Temm. Man. 1815, 422. — Nutt. Man. II. 1834, 162. — Aud. Orn. Biog. 11. 
1838, 81, pi. 310 ; Synop. 1839, 242 ; B. Am. V. 1842, 303, pi. 342. 
Tringoides macularius, Gray', Gen. B. III. 1849, 574. — Cass, in Baird’s B. N. Am. 1858, 735. — 
Baird, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 543. — Coues, Key, 1872, 260 ; Check list, 1873, no. 436 ; 2d 
ed. 1882, no. 638 ; Birds N. W. 1874, 501. — PiiDGW. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 557. 
“ Tringa notata, Ilijger ” (Gray). 
Actitis Wiedi, Bonap. (fide Gray). 
Hab. The whole of North and Middle America, and South America as far as Brazil ; occa- 
sional in Europe ; no Greenland record. Breeds throughout temperate North America. 
Sp. Char. Small ; bill rather longer than the head, straight, slender ; long grooves in both 
mandibles ; wing rather long, pointed ; tail medium, rounded ; legs rather long, lower third of 
the tibia naked ; toes long, margined, and flattened underneath, outer connected with the middle 
toe by a large membrane, inner very slightly connected to the middle toe. Adult: Upper parts 
greenish ashy, with a somewhat metallic or bronzed lustre, and with numerous sagittate, lanceolate, 
and irregular, mostly transverse, spots of brownish black, having the same lustre. Line over the 
eye and entire under parts white, with numerous circular and oval spots of brownish black over 
the whole lower surface, smaller on the throat, largest on the abdomen. Primaries plain dusky ; 
tail dark ashy, the outer feathers with dusky and white transverse spots on their terminal portion ; 
axillars immaculate white. Young : Above, greenish ashy, the wings with narrow transverse bars 
of black and ochraceous, most numerous on the coverts. Beneath, white, without any spots, and 
with an ashy suffusion across the jugulum. Dovmy chick: Above, yellowish gray, with a narrow 
1 Tringoides hypoleucus. The Common Sandpiper of Europe. 
Tringa hypoleucos, Linn. S. N. ed. 10, 1758, 149 ; ed. 12, I. 1766, 250. 
Actitis hypoleucus, Boie, Isis, 1822, 649. — Naum. Vog. Deutschl. VII 1. 1836, 7, pi. 194. — Iveys. 
& Blas. Wirl:>. Eur. p. 73. 
Tringoides hypoleucct, Gray, List Gen. 1841, 88. 
Tringa leucoptera, Pall. Zoogr. 11.1831, 196. 
Totanus guinetta, Leach, Syst. Cat. Br. Mus. 30. 
Actitis cinclus, Boie, Isis, 1826, 327. 
Actitis stagnalis, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. 649. 
Common Sandpiper, Mont. Orn. Diet. ; Bewick, Yarrell, et Auct. 
