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SOLITARY SANDPIPER. 
This thinness of the leg enables the bird to wade with expe- 
dition, and without fatigue. Feet, three-toed, the outer toe 
connected to the middle one by a broad membrane ; wings, 
long, extending two inches beyond the tail, and sharp pointed ; 
irides, a bright rich scarlet ; pupil, black. In some the white 
from the breast extends quite round the neck, separating the 
black of the hind neck from that of the body ; claws, blackish 
horn. 
The female is about half an inch shorter, and differs in 
having the plumage of the upper back and scapulars, and also 
the tertials, of a deep brown colour. The stomach, or gizzard, 
was extremely muscular, and contained fragments of small 
snail shells, winged bugs, and a slimy matter, supposed to be 
the remains of some aquatic worms. In one of these females 
I counted upwards of one hundred and fifty eggs, some of 
them as large as buck-shot. The singular form of the legs 
and feet, with the exception of the hind toe and one membrane 
of the foot, is exactly like those of the Avoset. The upper 
curvature of the bill, though not quite so great, is also the 
same as in the other, being rounded above, and tapering to a 
delicate point in the same manner. In short, a slight compa- 
rison of the two is sufficient to satisfy the most scrupulous 
observer that Nature has classed these two birds together, and 
so believing, we shall not separate them. 
SOLITARY SANDPIPER TRINGA SOLITARIA. 
Plate LVIII. Fig. 3. 
Peak's Museum , No. 7763. 
TOTANUS CHL OR OPIG1 US. — V ieillot. * 
Totanus glareolus, Ord's reprint, p. 57. — Totanus chloropigius, V ieill . — Bonap. 
Cat. p. 26. — Synop. p. 325. 
This new species inhabits the watery solitudes of our highest 
mountains during the summer, from Kentucky to New York ; 
* In the second edition of the seventh part, under the inspection of Mr Ord, 
this bird is described as new, by the name of T. glareolus. Ord thought it 
