neck, throat, and breast, streaked downwards with ash brown
lines on a ground of dull greyish white; belly, vent, and
under tail-coverts white; sides, axillary plume, and> under
wing-coverts white, with a few- transverse dusky -bars; legs^
toes, and claws, olive green-
The whole length not quite nine inches: From, the carpal
joint to the end of the -first quill-feather, which is the longest
in the. wing, five inchesi
Some specimens of these birds in the: collection of Richard
Dann, Esq., obtained in Norway in the breeding-season, havé
the streaks and lines on the neck and breast, and the feathers
on the back and wings -so black in colour, and extendingiever
so large a space in each feather, as to exhibit but little of» the
light-coloured spottingnbserved in the'pluniage-of the %)e;chi
mens generally obtained* in th is' country, M d ’ give the bird
something of the dark appearance o f' the Spotted'Redshank,
figured at page 5 £0..
Beneath aré re jn ^m É iitiö n sïo i^& A e r axillary
plume and middle of the tail in the W qod*Saüd|hper{i''
GRALLATORES. SCOLOPACIDÆ.
T H l f COMMON- SA N D P IPE R ,
OR SUMMER SN IPE .
Tringa hypoleucos, Common Sandpiper, P enn. Brit. Zool. yol. ii. p. 90.
M ont. Ornith. Diet.
Totanus,
, Bewjce, .Bjrit. Birds, yol. ii. p. 10b
,, , ,, Flem. Brit.'An. p. 104.
„ ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p : 81.
,, „ ' J enyns, Brit: Vert. p. 109.
HHj I H H G ould, Birds of Europe, p t. xiii,
Chevalier guignette, T emm. Man. d’Ornith. vol. ü. p . 657.
T h e C ommon S a n d p i p e r - is a summer visiter to this
country, appearing in April, leaving us again by the end of
^eptefedwl and is i very generally known by the name of the
Summer Snipe. * Mr. Thompson sends me word that this
bird is also a regular summer visitant to Ireland. I t is common
in Wales, not uncommon in Cornwall, and is found in