. A history of British birds . is more buff; the under parts buffy-white. A specimen of the American Solitary Sandpiper {TotanussoUtarius) is said by Mr. R. Gray (Ibis, 1870, p. 292, andB. of W. of Scot. p. 296) to have been shot some years ago,somewhere on the banks of the Clyde. More recently Cornish has stated (Zool. 1882, p. 432) that an examplewas obtained at Scilly on the 21st September of that year,and is now in the collection of Mr. Dorien Smith of reply to inquiries, Mr. Cornish informed the Editor thatthis specimen was identified from the plate and descrip-tion in Wil
. A history of British birds . is more buff; the under parts buffy-white. A specimen of the American Solitary Sandpiper {TotanussoUtarius) is said by Mr. R. Gray (Ibis, 1870, p. 292, andB. of W. of Scot. p. 296) to have been shot some years ago,somewhere on the banks of the Clyde. More recently Cornish has stated (Zool. 1882, p. 432) that an examplewas obtained at Scilly on the 21st September of that year,and is now in the collection of Mr. Dorien Smith of reply to inquiries, Mr. Cornish informed the Editor thatthis specimen was identified from the plate and descrip-tion in Wilsons Ornithology, and not from comparisonwith an American skin. This Nearctic representative of ourWood Sandpiper differs from the latter in having the uppertail-coverts of an olive-brown colour, the shaft of the outerprimary is dusky, not white, and the outer tail-feathers dis-tinctly barred on both webs. Beneath are representations of a feather from the axillaryplume and one from the middle of the tail in the LIMICOL^. COMMON REDSHANK. 469 SCOLOPACIDA^..
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