SOLITARY SANDPIPER, OR TATLER. 
Sll 
be found in the same place a few hours after. Its alighting on trees has often 
appeared to me as singular as that of Bartram’s Snipe and the Semipalmated 
species. The Solitary Snipe is, however, the most expert at catching insects 
on the wing, especially the smaller kinds of dragon-flies, which it chases 
from the sticks on which they alight, and generally seizes before they have 
flown across the little ponds, which are the favourite places of resort of this 
species. I have found their stomachs filled with aquatic insects, caterpil- 
lars of various kinds, and black spiders of considerable size. 
I consider this bird to be a constant resident in the United States, although 
it ranges over a great space in summer and winter. Scarcely any difference 
is observable in the sexes ; and I am of opinion that the young acquire their 
full plumage the first spring. 
Solitary Sandpiper, Tringa solitaria, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. vii. p. 53. 
Totanus chloropygius, Bonap. Syn., p. 325. 
Totanus chloropygius, Green-rump Tatler , Swains, and Rich. F. Bor. Amer., vol. 
ii. p. 393. 
Green-rump Tatler, Totanus chloropygius , And. Orn. Biog., vol. iii. p. 5l6 ; vol. 
V, p 583. 
Male, 82 , 16 J. 
Distributed from Texas over the United States, breeding in deep woody 
situations, in the Fur Countries on the bare sand. Columbia river. Partially 
migratory. 
Adult male. 
Bill a little longer than the head, very slender, sub-cylindrical, straight, 
flexible, compressed at the base, the point rather depressed and obtuse. 
Upper mandible with the dorsal line straight, the ridge convex, broader at 
the base, slightly depressed towards the end, the sides sloping, towards the 
end convex, the edges soft and obtuse, the tip very slightly deflected. Nasal 
groove long and narrow, extending to a little beyond the middle of the 
bill ; nostrils basal, linear, pervious. Lower mandible with the angle very 
long and extremely narrow, the dorsal line straight, the sides convex, with 
a slight groove in their basal half. 
Head small, oblong, anteriorly narrowed. Eyes large. Neck rather long 
and slender. Body slender. Feet long and slender; tibia bare nearly half 
its length, scutellate before and behind ; tarsus also scutellate before and 
behind; hind toe very small and elevated; fore toes rather long, very slender, 
connected at the base by webs, of which the outer is much larger; second or 
inner toe considerably shorter than fourth, third longest; all scutellate above, 
flat and marginate beneath. Claws small, slightly arched, much compressed, 
rather obtuse, that of middle toe much larger, with the inner edge enlarged. 
