22 Mr. Markwick'j Catalogue of Birds 



few of thefe birds frequent the banks of the river at Horfham, 

 and in 1793 * vvas m hopes that I fhould be able to afcertain 

 whether it were fo or not; but I could procure only one of them, 

 which proved to be the Tringa Ochropus. The Tringa Glareola is de- 

 fcribed in the Firil Volume of the Linnean Tranfactions. 



No. 1 1.9. — The common Sandpiper, Tringa Hypoleucos. 



This is a folitary bird, frequenting the fides of ponds and rivu- 

 lets. I never had but one in my poffeflion, and that I fhot by the 

 fide of a large mill-pond in the year 1773. 



No. 120. — The Sea Sandpiper. Tringa marhhna. Lath. Orn. r 1. 

 ^.731. n. 18. 



On the 8th of December 1796 a fmall flock, confiding of ten 

 or twelve of thefe birds, were feen on the fea-coaft near Bexhill : 

 two of them were fhot and brought to me. 



Its length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail is 

 eight inches and an half; its breadth from tip to tip of the 

 wings when extended, fifteen inches and an half. Its bill is an 

 inch and a quarter long, yellow from the bafe halfway, and the tip 

 black. Its weight is two ounces and an half. The head, neck 

 fhoulders and back are of a dark dufky afh-colour, with the 

 edges of each feather on the back fomewhat lighter: the prime 

 quill feathers of the wings aredulky, with their ihafts white, par- 

 ticularly the firft: the fecondary quills are lighter, with white 

 tips; and the hindermoft are almoft white, having only one dufky 

 fpot. The tail is (hort, and confifts of twelve feathers, of which 

 the four middlemoft are of a dark dufky colour, and the four on 

 each fide gradually fhorter, and of a pale aih-colour edged with 

 white. The under-fide of the neck and bread dufky, with the fea- 

 thers on the bread fringed with white. The chin, lower part of the 



breaft, 



