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SPOTTED TOTANUS. 
the west. It was shot (about the 26th September, 
1839) between Renton and Sherringham, on the 
north coast of Norfolk, in company with a flock of 
Common Sandpipers, five or six of which came 
into my hands with it.”* 
There is no instance, on record, of specimens 
being found either in Scotland or Ireland, and in 
Europe it is rare. North America is its proper 
locality, where it represents our T. hypoleucus, and 
by Bonaparte it is entered as “ accidental ” in 
Europe, showing the true state of its range. We 
possess specimens in the plumage of the winter 
and young state, from the island of Tobago. 
The Spotted Sandpiper is slightly less in its pro- 
portions than the last, the bill also rather shorter, 
but stronger towards the base, and of a more 
yellowish tint. In the breeding plumage the upper 
parts are hair-brown, having a greener tint than 
in T. hypoleucus , but showing the same shining 
lustre on the head and neck; each feather is 
marked with a darker streak in the centre, and 
on the back, wings, and long tertials, the shafts 
appear as lines, and each feather is crossed by one 
or more dark irregular bands, running to a point 
in the centre upon the shaft ; the under parts are 
entirely pure white, each feather near the tip 
being marked with an almost round spot of dark 
hair-brown, whence the name has been taken ; 
axillary feathers white ; the tail is entirely hair- 
brown, all the feathers slightly tipped with white, 
* Quoted from Yarrell. 
