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SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 
Tringa macularia , 
Totanus macularius, 
Pennant. Montagu, 
Selby. Jenyns. 
Temminck. 
macularia , 
Tringa —, 
Macularia. Macula — A spot. 
This bird appears frequently in the north of Europe, in 
Sweden, and the Islands of the Baltic, and also in Germany. 
In America, it is common from Labrador and Canada to 
Texas, Mexico, and the Islands of the West Indies. 
One was shot on the coast of Norfolk, between Bunton 
and Sherringham, about the 26th. of September, 1839. 
It is a migratory species, moving southwards in October, 
and northwards in the spring. 
The Spotted Sandpiper exhibits the like anxiety for its 
young which so many other kinds do, and developes it in 
the same manner—in endeavouring, by every device, to draw 
away intruders. Audubon mentions the fact of one of these 
birds, which he had disturbed, having removed two eggs from 
the nest, which contained four, and this although he had, 
with a view to their subsequent procurement, placed stones 
over the nest in such a manner as that it was impossible 
she could have bodily entered it. She must, as I have shewn 
elsewhere of another species, have abstracted them with her 
bill. 
The Spotted Sandpiper is to be found in summer in woody 
districts, by the edges of lakes, and as well along the side 
of a meandring river, or the pebbled margin of some small 
‘streamlet or rill,’ which gently follows its downward course 
along the bank of a shelving copse or the quiet side of a 
flat meadow. It is rarely seen by the sea-side. 
The nest is placed in some well-hidden spot in a field, 
