_Tringa pusilla_, +Wils.+ pl. 37. _Pelidna pusilla_, +Cuv.+ [105] Length 5³⁄₄ inches, expanse 11¹⁄₂, flexure 3⁸⁄₁₀, tail 1¹⁄₂, rictus ⁷⁄₁₀, tarsus ⁸⁄₁₀, middle toe ⁸⁄₁₀. Intestine 11 inches, two cæca ³⁄₄ inch long. About the end of the year, this little species becomes numerous in the open morasses, associating in flocks of about half a dozen, which run swiftly over the boggy and wet soil, as the other Sandpipers do. Out of the same flock I found some, both males and females, which had the beak considerably broader and flatter than others; some also have the feet blackish, and others clay-colour. In other respects the specimens were undistinguishable. I found in the stomach comminuted animal matter, and fragments of shells. SPOTTED SANDPIPER.[106] _Actitis macularius._ _Tringa macularia_, +Wils.+—Aud. pl. 310. _Actitis macularius_, +Boie+. [106] Length 7¹⁄₂ inches, expanse 12, flexure 4, tail 1⁹⁄₁₀, rictus 1¹⁄₂₀, tarsus 1¹⁄₁₀, middle toe ⁹⁄₁₀. Intestine 9 inches; two cæca 1¹⁄₂ inch from cloaca, 1 inch long, very slender. This is a common species with us, affecting principally the margins and shallows of rocky streams, such as Bluefield River. It arrives from the north about the end of August, and remains certainly till after the middle of April, and I am not sure that individuals do not stay all the summer. Wilson has delineated the manners of this bird in a very interesting manner, to which I have nothing to add. One which was wounded in the wing, I put into a cage for an hour or two; during which time it frequently made a succession of charges at the wires, squatting down at intervals on the belly. When it walked, it was in a singular manner; the heel much bent, the tarsus forming an acute angle with the ground, and the toes thrown forward. BAR-TAILED SANDPIPER.[107] _Totanus chloropygius._ _Tringa solitaria_, +Wils.+ _Totanus chloropygius_, +Vieill.+ [107] Length 8 inches, expanse 15, flexure 5, tail 2²⁄₁₀, rictus 1¹⁄₄, tarsus 1¹⁄₁₀, middle toe 1¹⁄₁₀. About the ponds of pastures, and fresh-water morasses, this Sandpiper or Gambet is frequently seen; and that not quite so solitarily as Wilson found it. The gizzard of one that I dissected was filled with a blackish, unctuous, filamentous substance, among which I detected some fragments of minute water-insects, a small larva of a _libellula_, &c.