40 Mr. Montagu'/ Defcriptkns of 



i. TRINGA NIGRICANS.— PHAYRELARN SANDPIPER. 



Tr. cinereo-nigricans, gula abdomineque medio albis, roftro bafi 

 pedibufque rubris. 



THIS nori-defcript fpecies of Tringa was killed at Lam, or 

 Lougharne, on the coaft of Carmarthenfhire in Wales, January 20, 

 1792, and prefented to me by my friend Robert Phayre, Efq. which 

 induced me to give it the above trivial name. It was fhot in com- 

 pany with its congenera the Purre (Tringa CmftusJ, &c. All I could 

 learn was, that, at trie time it was killed, the weather was very 

 fevere, and that two others had been ihot there the fame feafon, 

 and were called by the fiOiermen Red-legs. 



In fize it rather exceeds the Purre : the length was eight inches 

 and a half; the bill flender, an inch and a quarter long, taperin^ 

 towards the point, a little curved, and of a doll red colour, except 

 at the apex and fides; the irides hazel; the head and neck dulky 

 . black; eye-lids whitifli; the throat white; back and fcapulars 

 black, edged with afh-colour; the wing-coverts black tint with 

 white ; quill feathers black, flightly edged with white on the exte- 

 rior webs; fhafts white; bread and all beneath white, prettily 

 fpotted with black, except the middle of the belly and venf the 

 rump black ; the two middle feathers of the tail black, the outer 

 one cinereous, and the reft duiky ; the legs and toes dull red ; claws 

 black and blunt ; toes nearly divided to their origin ; middle toe an 

 inch long. 



This bird is now in my collection, from which I have taken the 

 figure annexed, Tab. 2. fig. 2. * < 1 



* Mr. Latham fufpeas this may poffibly be the Purple Sandpiper figured by Mr. Wal- 

 £0t in his fecond volume of Britiih Birds. 



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