. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . organs are similar to those of the Totaui;as are the organs of sense and the limbs, the feet being pro-portionally shorter. The plumage is also similar. The Weet-Aveets arc small migratory birds, which fre-quent the sandy and muddy margins of lakes, rivers, andestuaries. They are especially remarkable for the vibratorymotion of their body, and t
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . organs are similar to those of the Totaui;as are the organs of sense and the limbs, the feet being pro-portionally shorter. The plumage is also similar. The Weet-Aveets arc small migratory birds, which fre-quent the sandy and muddy margins of lakes, rivers, andestuaries. They are especially remarkable for the vibratorymotion of their body, and their shrill cries. They feed oninsects, larva?, Avorms, and mollusca ; have a rapid, some-what iindulated, and vacillatory flight; and run with greatcelerity. Their nest is a slight hollow ; their eggs four, verylarge, pyriform, spotted. The young, at flrst covered Avitlilongishdown, run about and conceal themselves by two species are found in Ihitain : one of them commonand generally distributed ; the other extremely rare, andproperly an American species, of Avhich a f^Av strn^glers•omelimes And their Avay to Europe. 3J1 ACTITIS IIYPOLi:UCOS. THE WHITE-BREASTEDWEET-WEET. COMMON SANUPIIKR. WATKR JUNKKT. //^i iMJ. 29. Tringa Ilypolcucos. Linn. jSat. I. 2o0. Tiinga Ilypoloucos. Lath. Ind. Ornith. IL 734. Commou Sandpiper. Mont. Orn. Diet. Chevalier Guigactte. Totanus hypolciicos. Temm. Man. dOm. IL Ilypoloucos. Common Sandpiper. Flem. Brit. Anim. 104. Common Sandpiper. Totanus Ilypoloucos. Solb. Illustr. II. 8L Totanus Ilypolcucos. Common Sandpiper. Jeu. Brit. Yert. An. 199. Actitis Hypoleucos. Bonap. Comp. List, 51. The hill dnsl-ij; tlic feet (jrccnlsli-fjreij; upper parta rjlossygreenish-broivn, transversely handed and undulated with darkhroicn; lower parts white, excepting the fore part and sides ofneck, which are grei/ish, with faint duski/ lines. Young withthe upper parts lighter, the feathers margined wit]i duskg
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