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TOTANUS CHLOROPYGIUS. 
230 . TOTANUS cnLosopraius, vieili,. 
TRINGA SOLITARIAj WILSON.' — SOLITAE.Y SANDPIPER. 
WILSON, PLATE I.VIII. FIG. III. 
This new species inliabits the watery solitudes 
our InVhest mountains during’ the summer, frol’' 
Kentucky to New York ; hut is no where numeroU’’ 
seldom more than one or two being seen together. I* 
takes short, low llights ; runs nimbly about among tb* 
mossy margins of the mountain springs, hrooks, 30“ 
pools, occa-sionally stopping-, looking at yon, and pef 
petually nodding the head. It is so unsuspicious, or 
little acquainted n-ith man, as to permit one to approach 
within a few yards of it, without appearing ,to take aO.f 
notice, or to be the least alarmed. At the approach 0 * 
cold weather, it descend.s to the muddy shores of oo“ 
lar<fo rivers, where it is occasionally met with, siiigh'’ 
on its way to the south. I have made many lon«’ aa^ 
close searclies for the nest of this bird, witliout succes*'- 
They regularly breed on Pocano mountain, betwc^® 
Easton and Wilkesbarre, in Pennsylvania, arrii'i>'? 
there early in May, and departing in September. It >’ 
usually silent, unless when suddenly Hushed, w hen 
utters a sharp whistle. 
This species has considerable resemblance, both i®. 
manners and markings, to the green sandpiper 
Europe (trinya ochropus ;) but differs from that biri* 
in being nearly one-third less, and in wantiun- th“ 
white rump and tail-coverts of that species ; it is als® 
destitute of its silky olive green plumage. How f®'' 
north Its migrations e.vfeud, I am unable to sav. 
The solitary sandpiper is eight inches and a bal> 
long, and htteen -inches in extent; the bill is on® 
inch and a quarter in length, and dusky; nostril®> 
pervious, bill, lluted above and below; line over th« 
eye, chin, belly, and vent, pure tvhite ; breast, whit®- 
spotted with pale olive brown ; crown and neck aboV«> 
