SOLITARY SANDPIPER, OR TATLER. 
809 
extent of wings 181 ; wing from flexure 4$-; tail 2 ; bill along the ridge 1 ; 
tarsus {°| ; hind toe and claw T 4 ! ; middle toe and claw 1 T V. 
Female. 
There is hardly any difference between the sexes. 
The young in winter have the bill black at the end, dusky olive above, 
yellowish beneath ; the feet yellowish flesh-colour. The lower parts are 
brownish-white, without spots ; the upper of the same brownish-olive as in 
the adult, but the head and hind neck destitute of streaks, and the rest with 
narrower and more numerous dusky bars. 
The tongue is 10 twelfths long, slender, tapering to a point, grooved 
above, sagittate and papillate at the base. The roof of the mouth with a 
single row of papillae, posteriorly divided into two series. (Esophagus 3 
inches and 8 twelfths long, its diameter 2 twelfths, and nearly uniform. 
Proventriculus J inch long, 3i twelfths in diameter. Stomach elliptical, 8£ 
twelfths long, 61 twelfths in breadth ; its lateral muscles strong, the ten- 
dinous spaces oblong ; the cuticular lining with large longitudinal rug®, 
and of a deep red colour: The contents of the stomach in this individual 
were remains of marine insects, and quartz sand. Intestine 10 inches long, 
its diameter varying from 1 h twelfths to 1 twelfth ; it enlarges near the 
rectum to 2 twelfths. Rectum 1 inch and 1 twelfth ; coeca 1 inch and 1 
twelfth, their diameter 3 of a twelfth. 
The trachea is 2 inches and 8 twelfths long, its diameter from 2 twelfths 
to 1 twelfth ; its rings 105, feeble and unossified. The lateral muscles ex- 
tremely feeble ; sterno-tracheals moderate ; a single pair of inferior laryn- 
geal muscles. 
SOLITARY SANDPIPER, OR TATLER. 
Totanus SOLITARIUS, Wils. 
PLATE CCCXLIII. — Male and Eemale. 
The only nest of this bird that I ever met with was placed in an elevated 
part of the woods near Bayou Sara, on the margin of a small pond scarcely 
ten yards broad, overgrown with low bushes, and cumbered with fallen 
branches of trees. It was formed of grass and withered leaves, arranged 
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