. An illustrated manual of British birds . ce the bird derives its Louisiananame of Papabot. The food, consisting of beetles, grasshoppersand other insects, small snails, earth-worms Szc, appears to be veryfattening, and in autumn the bird is much prized by epicures. The adult in summer has the head, neck and breast pale rufous,with black markings which assume the form of arrow-heads on thelower breast; chin, orbits, belly and vent white; upper partsstreaked and mottled with black and white on a reddish-brownground ; inner webs of primaries conspicuously barred ; tail—longand wedge-shaped when
. An illustrated manual of British birds . ce the bird derives its Louisiananame of Papabot. The food, consisting of beetles, grasshoppersand other insects, small snails, earth-worms Szc, appears to be veryfattening, and in autumn the bird is much prized by epicures. The adult in summer has the head, neck and breast pale rufous,with black markings which assume the form of arrow-heads on thelower breast; chin, orbits, belly and vent white; upper partsstreaked and mottled with black and white on a reddish-brownground ; inner webs of primaries conspicuously barred ; tail—longand wedge-shaped when closed—of a pale orange-brown barred withblack, the middle feathers having dusky centres ; under surface ofthe wings barred with black and white. Length 12 in. ; wing 675 female is slightly larger than the male. The winter-plumage israther paler; and immature birds have the feathers of the backmore margined with rufous-buff. It will be observed that the tail isbarred as in Totaniis, and not plain as in Tringa. SCOLOPACIDvE 591. THE COMMON SANDPIPER. TcjTANUS HYPOLEUCUS (LinnKus). This species, often called the Summer-Snipe, is a regular visitorto the British Islands, usually appearing in April and leaving againby the end of September, though a few birds occasionally remaintill November. Inasmuch as its favourite haunts are the gravellymargins of lakes or of running water, and islets of shingle withscanty herbage in trout-streams, this Sandpiper is chiefly seen onmigration in the south-east of England ; but it breeds, sparingly,along the moorland brooks of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, andperhaps in Dorset, Sussex, Kent and Buckinghamshire. In Wales,and in fact west of the Severn and north of the Trent, it is wellknown ; while in Scotland it is to be found on almost every lochand burn throughout the mainland, ranging to the Outer Hebrides,Orkneys and Shetlands. It is generally distributed in Ireland. In summer this Sandpiper is plentiful from the Arctic circledown to
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