BIRDS OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. 
163 
mottled with white and brown ; throat, ashy, shading into olive on 
the sides of the breast ; a faint superciliary line of dull white touch- 
ing the eyelid; abdomen and crissum, white; secondaries tipped, 
and inner primaries spotted with white ; lower mandible, greenish, 
becoming dark at the end. 
Length 7.10, wing 3.75, tail 2.05, tarsus .94, bill 1. 
The Spotted Sandpiper appears to be a rather scarce resident 
in the Bahamas. But three specimens were taken, — a solitary indi- 
vidual at Andros Island, Jan. 9, 1879, and two near Bud Rock, 
Acklin Island, in May of the same year. It is possible that the 
latter specimens were migrating from some of the more southern 
islands, and had merely touched at the Bahamas on their way north, 
in which case it could only be considered as a winter visitant. 
Fig. Aud. Bds. N. A., Vol. V. pi. 342. 
