SPECIES 2. TRINGA SOLITARM. 
SOLITARY SANDPIPER. 
[Plate LVIIL— Fig. 3.] 
Peai.e’s Museum, Mo. 7763.* 
This new species inhabits the watery solitudes of our high- 
est mountains during the summer, from Kentucky to New York; 
but is no where numerous, seldom more than one or two being 
seen together. It takes short low flights; runs nimbly about 
among the mossy margins of the mountain springs, brooks and 
pools, occasionally stopping, looking at you, and perpetually 
nodding the head. It is so unsuspicious, or so little acquainted 
with man, as to permit one to approach within a few yards of 
it, without appearing to take any notice, or to be the least alarm- 
ed. At the approach of cold weather, it descends to the muddy 
shores of our large rivers, where it is occasionally met with, 
singly, on its way to the south. I have made many long and 
close searches for the nest of this bird, without success. They 
regularly breed on Pocano mountain, between Easton and Wil- 
kesbarre, in Pennsylvania, arriving there early in May, and 
departing in September. It is usually silent, unless when sud- 
denly flushed, when it utters a sharp whistle. 
This species has considerable resemblance, both in manners 
and markings, to the Green Sandpiper of Europe ( Tringa Och- 
ropus); but differs from that bird in being nearly one-third less, 
and in wanting the white rump and tail-coverts of that species; 
it is also destitute of its silky olive green plumage. How far 
north its migrations extend I am unable to say. 
The Solitary Sandpiper is eight inches and a half long, and 
fifteen inches in extent; the bill is one inch and a quarter in 
* Totanus glareohis, Ord’s reprint, vii, p. 57. — Tolaims chloropygius, Vieili, — 
Prince Mnsignano, Gen. M Jl. Birds. 
