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SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 
of the gunner is to escape the penetrating glance of this 
guardian, which it is sometimes extremely difficult to effect. On 
the first whistle of the Tell-tale, if beyond gunshot, the gunner 
abandons his design, but not without first bestowing a few left- 
handed blessings on the author of his disappointment. 
[Mr Ord adds, “ Pennant’s Spotted Snipe is undoubtedly 
this species. He states that it arrives at Hudson’s Bay in the 
spring ; feeds on small shell fish and worms ; and frequents 
the banks of rivers. Called there, by the natives, from its 
noise, Sa-sa-shew .* This Indian word, pronounced with 
rapidity, gives a tolerable idea of the whistle of the Tell-tale; 
and is a proof of the advantage of recording the vulgar names 
of animals, when these names are expressive of any peculiarity 
of voice or habit.”] 
SPOTTED SANDPIPER TRINGA MACULARIA. 
Plate LIX. Fig. 1. 
Arct. Zool. p. 473, No. 385. — La grive d’eau, Buff. viii. 140 — Edw. 277. — Beale's 
Museum , No. 4056. 
TOTANUS MACULARIUS.—TEum^cK.f 
Ord's reprint of Wils. part vii. p. 64. — Temm. Man. d' Orn. ii. p. 656 — JBonap. 
Synop. p. 325. — Flem. Br. Zool. p. 102. — Spotted Sandpiper, Mont. Orn. 
Diet. ii. and Supp. Selby's Illust. of Br. Orn. w. b. pi. 17. 
This very common species arrives in Pennsylvania about 
the 20th of April, making its first appearance along the shores 
of our large rivers, and, as the season advances, tracing the 
courses of our creeks and streams towards the interior. Along 
* Arctic Zoology , vol. ii. p. 170. 
f This is one of the most beautiful and most delicately marked among the 
smaller Totani ; closely allied to our common Sand Lark, T. hypoleucos, it is 
at once distinguished by the spotted marking on the under parts, which con- 
trasts finely with their pure white. They frequent the banks of rivers more 
than the larger species, and have all a peculiar motion of the body and tail while 
running. The Spotted Sandpiper is common to both continents, and has been 
once or twice killed in Great Britain. — Ed. 
