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SANDPIPER. 
some of the feathers edged with light ferruginous. In another, the 
head and neck are dark ash-colour ; back and scapulars grey, distinctly 
and prettily marked with large angular spots of black. These seem to 
be young birds, of that season, in their gradation of plumage. In some 
the wing coverts are dark brown ; others ash-colour, with more or less 
dusky streaks ; and all the inner webs of the quills, and part of the 
outer webs of the secondaries, white ; and the middle feathers of the 
tail dusky. 
Whether this bird breeds with us is not yet thoroughly known. We 
have seen them on many parts of the coast in the month of April, and 
in July, but never in the intermediate months. Mr. Boys, of Sand- 
wich, informs us he thinks they breed on that coast, as well as the 
dunlin ; and we received several eggs from that gentleman found on 
that sandy shore, which are unknown to us, and may possibly belong 
to one of these two birds. They are not much unlike that of the black 
tern, but smaller. 
The Sanderling’ is found on many of our shores, where it flocks 
together with the dunlin, but is not so plentiful a species ; and both 
are indiscriminately called oxbird by some persons. This is also 
called curwillet and towwilly. It is said to be found in New South 
Wales, where it is called, by the natives, madderque. Mr. Simmonds 
remarks, in the Linn. Trans. 8, p. 268, that he saw this species on the 
2nd of June, at the Mull of Cantyre. 
SAND LARK. — A name for the Ringed Plover, and the Sandpiper. 
SAND MARTIN. — A name for the Bank Swallow. 
SANDPIPER (^Tringa, Brisson.) — *A genus of Waders (^Gralla- 
tores.) Illiger.) There is a close resemblance between this genus and 
that of the snipe and plover. In the former, the length of the bill in 
that genus, and in the latter the want of a back toe, are the only 
characteristic marks of distinction ; and these, in some species, run so 
nearly into one another as scarcely to be divided. In the young of 
the redshank, the bill scarcely exceeds an inch and a half in length 
and in the grey sandpiper there is no back toe, but only a sort of spur, 
very small.* 
SANDPIPER {Totanus hypoleucuS) Temminck.) 
Tiinga hypoleucus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 250. 14. — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 678. — Lath. Ind. 
Orn. 2. p. 734. 28. — Triiiga minor, Rati, Syn, p. 108. A. 6. — Will. p. 223. t. 
55 — Totanus hypoleucus, Temm. Man. d’Orn. 2. p. 657. — Flem. Br. Anira. p. 
104 — Guinetta, Briss. 5. p. 183. 2. t. 16. f. 2 Ih. 8vo. 2. p. 260. — La Guig- 
nette, Bujf. Ois. 7. p. 540. — Common Sandpiper, Br. Zool. 2. No. 204. t. 17. 
— lb. fol. 125 — Arct. Zool. 2. No. 388. 23. — Will. (Angl.) p. 301. t. 55. — 
Lath. Syn. 5. p. 178. 23 Lewin’s Br. Birds, 5. t. 172 Wale. Syn. 2. t. 148. 
.—Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 15. 
