on the Migration of Birds. 129 
Tringa nigra albo punétata, peétore maculato, abdomine fubal- 
bido, pedibus virefcentibus. Fi. Suec. 152. 
Tringa. - Briffon’s Ornithologia, vol. ii. p. 259. 
This bird was thot by the fide of a little frefh-water rivulet in 
the parifh of Battle, and fent me by a friend. I donot find it men= | 
tioned by any author except Linnæus; who, in his Syftema Na- 
turæ, feems to think it only a variety of the Tringa Ochropus, or 
Green Sandpiper : but, in his Fauna Suecica, he takes notice of it 
as a diftinét fpecies, calls it Tringa Glareola, and defcribes it as fol- 
lows, which agrees with the bird that was fent to me: ‘€ Magni- 
tudo Sturni, dorfum fufcum albo punétatum, uropigium album, re- 
miges fufcæ, prima rachi nivea; fecundariæ apicis margine albæ, 
rectrices fafciis albis fufcifq; laterales magis albæ, minufq; fafciatæ, 
abdomen albidum.” He alfo fays, ** Habitat in fylvis uliginofis.” | 
This bird is rather more than nine inches in length from the 
tip of the bill to the end of the tail, and near a foot and a half 
from tip to tip of the wings when extended. Its bill is fmooth, 
black, an inch and a half long. The noftrils are long, and 
placed near the head, and each mandible has a furrow running 
along it, more than half way from the head. From the bill to 
each eye there goes a blackifh line, and over each eye is a 
white fpace, and it is whitifh under the chin. The top of the 
head, neck, and breaft, are of a brownifh afh-colour ftreaked, efpe- 
cially on the breaft and cheeks, with a darker brownifh afh-colour. - 
The back is of a dufky brown, tinged a little with olive-colour, and 
marked pretty thick with {mall whitifh fpots. The rump and co- 
vert feathers of the tail are white. The tail confifts of twelve fea- , 
thers, marked with dark-coloured or blackifh and white bars, but 
the two outermoft are almoft entirely white; and the. nearer they 
are to the outfide, the more white they have. The quill feathers. 
of the wings are all over of a dark dufky brown colour, and the - 
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