go LONG-LEGGED SANDPIPER. 
Numenii, were this not forbidden by the long and delicate legs 
and toes, as well as some other peculiarities easier to perceive 
than to express by words. As a species, in form, dimensions, and 
especially in plumage, this bird greatly resembles Tringa subar- 
qaata of Temminck, ( JVumenius africanus, Lath.) from which it is 
however clearly distinguished by its still longer and semipalmated 
feet, in which latter only it resembles T. semipalmata. It cannot 
for a moment be mistaken for any other Tringa, differing widely 
from all, and by a complication of anomalies resembling more in 
general garb and plumage a Totanus than a Tringa. 
We are unable to say much of the habits of this curious Sand- | 
piper, further than that we met with it in the month of July, 1826, 
near a small freshwater pond at Long Branch. Being there in 
company with my friend Mr. Cooper, we observed a flock flying 
about, at which I fired, and killed the one here represented. On 
first picking it up, I mistook it for a time for T. subarquata , a 
species very rare in the United States, though one of the most 
common in Italy, but was undeceived upon observing the web 
between the toes. This is the only specimen I have ever seen, 
though the gentleman just mentioned informs me that he has 
recently procured another that was shot in the month of May on 
the south shore of Long Island. 
This new species is nearly nine and a half inches long. The 
bill, much longer than the head, is decidedly subarched, and mea¬ 
sures one inch and five eighths, and is black. The general plu¬ 
mage is of the same gray colour usual in other Sandpipers : the 
crown is dusky, mixed with whitish and blackish, and with a little 
bright rusty on the margins; a broad whitish line is above the 
eye; between the bill and eye dusky, a patch of rust-colour on the 
auriculars: the neck above and on the sides is mixed with whitish; 
the back and scapulars black, the feathers tipped with dusky gray 
and marked with pale rusty: the rump is plain dusky gray, 
