SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 
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ORA LLA TORES. 
SCO LOP A CIB/E. 
SPOTTED SANDPIPER 
Totanus macularius. 
PLATE XC. FIG. III. 
America seems the favourite resort of this species, 
which, according to Wilson, is met with on the shores of 
most of the large rivers, creeks, and streams of Pennsyl¬ 
vania, and is in great abundance along the rivers Schuyl¬ 
kill and Delaware, and their tributary waters. He says, 
“About the middle of May they resort to the adjoining 
cornfields to breed, where I have frequently found and 
examined their nests. One of these now before me, and 
which was built at the root of a hill of Indian corn, on 
high ground, is composed wholly of short pieces of dry 
straw. The eggs are four. The young run about with 
wonderful speed as soon as they leave the shell, and are 
then covered with down of a dull drab-colour, marked 
with a single streak of black down the middle of the 
back, and with another behind each ear/' 
The egg figured is in the collection of Mr. Bond. 
Most of the eggs of this species, which I have seen, 
bear slight resemblance to those of the other Sand¬ 
pipers ; some of them, however, are not unlike eggs of 
the Kentish plover. In form, they want the pear-shaped 
character of the eggs of the other waders. 
