. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. 366 TOT ANUS. Synonymy. Tringa glareola, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 149 (1758) ; Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. Q77 (1788). Tringa ochropus, /3. glareola, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 250 (1766). Tringa grallatoris, Montagu, Orn. Diet. Suppl. App. S (1813). Totanus glareola {Linn.), Temminck, Man. d'Orn. p. 421 (1815). Totanus affinis^ Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 191 (1832). Totanus grallatoris {Mont.), Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. i. p. 148 (1824). Rhyacophi
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. 366 TOT ANUS. Synonymy. Tringa glareola, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 149 (1758) ; Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. Q77 (1788). Tringa ochropus, /3. glareola, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 250 (1766). Tringa grallatoris, Montagu, Orn. Diet. Suppl. App. S (1813). Totanus glareola {Linn.), Temminck, Man. d'Orn. p. 421 (1815). Totanus affinis^ Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 191 (1832). Totanus grallatoris {Mont.), Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. i. p. 148 (1824). Rhyacophilus glareola {Linn.), Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 140 (1829). Actitis glareola {Linn.), Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus. As. Soc. p. 267 (1849). Totanus glareoloides, Hodgson, fide Jerdon, B. India, iii. p. 697 (1864). Literature. Plates.—Gould, Birds Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 57 ; Dresser, Birds of Europe, viii. pi. 565. Habits.—Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 132. Eggs.—Seebohm, British Birds, pi. 30. figs. 4, 5, 6. Specific characters. Geographi- cal distribu- tion. Nearest ally. The Wood-Sandpiper has the lower hack nearly the same colour as the mantle, and the predominant colour of the upjjer tail-coverts, awillaries, and under loing-coverts is white. This diagnosis is sufl&cient to distinguish it from all its congeners except from its two nearest allies, both of which are larger birds, as may be seen in the table of dimensions already given. The Wood-Sandpiper has a very extensive breeding-range. It has occurred in the Faroes, and may be regarded as a somewhat irregular visitor on spring and autumn migration to the British Islands, on very rare occasions remaining to breed. It is a summer visitor to the whole of Europe north of the valley of the Danube, and to Siberia, Turkestan, Mongoha, and the extreme north of China. It probably breeds as far north as land extends, as Middendorff found its nest in lat. 7U° on the Taimyr peninsula. It winters in the basin of the Mediterranean, and
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