lighter tint, ou a greyish yellow ground, the spots being larger and closer towards the rounded end. Both 
sexes Incubate, and remain with their brood until the time of their departure.” 
The following passage is from the pen of Mr. Thomas Nuttall, on the manners of the species as observed 
by him in the neighbourhood of Boston : — “The Peet Weet is one of the most familiar and common of all 
the New-England marsh-birds, arriving along our river-shores and low meadows about the beginning of 
May, from their mild or tro])lcal winter quarters in Mexico. As soon as it arrives on the coast, small roving- 
flocks are seen, at various times of the day, coursing rapidly along the borders of our tide-water streams, 
flying swiftly and rather low in circular sweeps along the meanders of the rock or river, and occasionally 
crossing from side to side, in rather a sportive and cheerful mien, than as the needy foragers they appear at 
the close of the autumn.” 
Mr. Stevenson omits tlie Actltis maculariiis from his ‘ List of the Birds of Norfolk,’ questions the evidence 
upon which a single example was recorded by Messrs. Gurney and Fisher as having been killed at 
Runton, near Cromer, ou the 26th of September, 1839, and further states “ I am the more desirous of 
giving publicity to this fact since the claim of the Spotted Sandpiper to he Included even in the list of 
British Birds rested solely for some years upon this particular specimen as recorded by Yarrell.” 
It has sometimes been a question with me whether the spottings on the breast of this bird are not purely 
seasonal; for I have seen many individuals apparently adult, especially from Venezuela, from which they have 
been absent : one thing is certain, the young during the first autumn have plain breasts, at which stage of 
their existence they closely assimilate to Actitis hypoleucos. 
The Plate represents an adult male and female, and young in the plumage of the first autumn, all of the 
natural size. 
