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XXXII. Additional Remarks on the Wood Sandpiper, Tringa glareola, 
By William Markwick, Efq. F. L.S. 
Read Fune 4, 1793 
HEN my defcription and figure of this bird were commu- 
nicated to the Linnean Society, and. which they thought 
proper to im ifh in the firft volume of their Tranfa@tions, I thought 
i the authority of Mefirs. Pennant and Latham, a diftinét 
fpecies, and a new w difcovery as a Britifh bird; but, having fince 
been favoured by Mr. Latham with {fome letters on the fubjeét, 
and alfo a dried fpecimen of the Tringa ccropus (a bird that I had 
not feen before), I have little or no doubt that the Tringa glareola 
is a mere variety of that bird; for, according to my recolleétion of 
the bird, and on comparing the Tringa ocropus with my defcription 
and figure, they appear to agree very nearly in fize and dimen- 
fions, the principal difference confifting in the colour of the 
plumage on fome parts, which may probably be occafione only 
by difference of fex or age. 
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