SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 
89 
^ '• olive, streaked with white ; hack, scapulars, ana 
w '^P> dark brown olive, each feather marked along 
dW "’ith small round spots of white j w-ings, 
ViH*’ darker tint ; under tail-covert, spotted 
featl sl'glitly rounded, the five exterior 
tile **** each side, white, broadly barred with black ; 
oli ■ middle ones, as well as tbeir coverts, plain 
anIV slender, and of a dusky green. Male 
muiale alike in colour. 
201. TOTAirUS MACVLAniUS, TEJIMINCK-. 
ilACULARIA, WILSOX. SPOTTED SAKDPlPEll. 
■SOK, 
"’n.; 
abj*'** Very common species arrives in Pennsylvania 
alon? ‘^Oth of April, making its fir.st appearance 
adv”" shores of our large rivers, and, as the season 
l'’‘ming the courses of our creeks and streams 
iute”rior. Along the rivers Schuylkill and 
aljujJ'l “’'®. and their tributary waters, they are in great 
|*’me during the summer. This species is as 
for perpetually wagging the tail, as some 
j*. «« .. .1 .1 - _ .... All.... 1....... pi • i" PVM p 1 k tT a 1 
^I'ATE LIX. FIG* I. —EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
the 
- ih nofhung the head; for, whether running 
tlig ® B''ouud, or on the fences, along the rails, or in 
yo( '^‘tter, this motion seems continual ; even the 
alini, 8> as soon as they are freed from the shell, run 
of v ®austautly wagging the tail. About the middle 
"'her ^ cesort to'the adjoining corn fields to breed, 
"ests*^ ^ frequently found and examined their 
huilt'. * these now before me, and ivhich was 
is "t the root of a hill of Indian corn, on high ground, 
Og„jj "posed wholly of short pieces of dry straw. The 
liqjj".''® tour, of a pale clay or cream colour, marked 
Vith otT^* irregular spots of black, and more thinly 
to t|,p thers of a paler tint. They are large, in proportion 
in I *me of the bird, measuring an inch and a quarter 
SUijj"8'th, very thick at the great end, .and tapering 
Voqj" K to the other. The young run about with 
si’tul speed, as soon as they leave the shell, and 
