47 o COMMON SANDPIPER. ClassII. 



Bill (lender and black : head, back, letter co- 

 verts of the wings, and the (capillars, of a dull fer- 

 ruginous color, fpotted with black : the greater co- 

 verts tipt with white : quil- feathers dufky, edged 

 on the exterior fide with white : bread reddifh 

 brown, mixed with dufky : belly and vent white : 

 tail cinereous •, two middle feathers longer than the 

 reft : lees black ; fize of the former. 



204.C0M- Gallinula hypoleucos (Fyf- Guinetta, la Guignette. Brif- 



mon. terlin). Ge/ncr a<v. 509. Jon av. V. 183. tab. 16. 



Alir. a». 111. 182. fig. 1. 



MIL orn. 301. Nor-vegis der lille Myrftik- 



Raii fyn. av. 108. kel. Bornbolmis Virlen. 



Sandlaufrerl. Kram. 353. Brunnich, 1 74. 



Tringa hypoleucos. Lin.Jyft. Br. Zool. 125. 



250. ' Martin's Scopoli, No. 143. 

 Snappa, Strandfittare. Faun. 

 Suec. fp. 182. 



THIS fpecies agrees with the former in its man- 

 ners and haunts \ but is more common : its 

 note is louder and more piping than others of this 

 Descrip. genus. Its weight is about two ounces : the head 

 is brown, ftreaked with downward black lines ; the 

 neck an obfcure afh color : the back and coverts 

 of the wings brown, mixed with a glofiy green, 

 elegantly marked with tranfverfe dufky lines : over 

 each eye is a white ftroke : the breaft and belly are 

 of a pure white; the quil- feathers are brown, the 

 firft entirely fo, the nine next marked on the inner 



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