Class II. ABERDEEN SANDPIPER. 469 



highly efteemed for its delicate tafte ; and is taken 

 with limed twigs placed near its haunts. 



Mr. Fleifcber favored us with a bird from Den- 

 mark, which, in all refpedts, refembled this, ex- 

 cept that the fpots were of a pale ruft color. 

 Linnaeus defcribes it under the title of ^rima lit- 



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torea, Faun. Suec. fp. 185. but we believe it does 

 not differ fpecifically from that above defcribed. 



Tringa Icelandica. Lin. fyft. Randbriflangcr. Brunnich, 202. Red, 



inter addenda. No. 180. 



Tringa ferruginea IJlandis 



T) IRDS" of this fpecies have appeared in great 

 JJ flocks on the coaft of Effex, on the eftate of 

 Col. Schutz. 



Crown of the head fpotted with black and fer- 

 ruginous. The lower fide of the neck, the bread, 

 and belly of a full ferruginous color : back mark- 

 ed with black and ruft color : coverts of the wings 

 aih color : legs black : bill ftrong, an inch and a 

 half long : the whole length of the bird ten inches. 



La Maubeche tachetee. Brifon V. 229? 203. Aber 



D£EIS' 



^TpHIS was communicated by the late Doclor 

 A David Skene of Aberdeen. 



I i 2 Bill 



