472 P U R R E. Class II. 



Flint/hire, fuppofe they breed with us ; but I never 

 difcovered their neft. They are common on the 

 Yorkjhire coafts, and eftcemed a great delicacy. 



206. Pur re. L'Allouette de Mer. Be/on Stint, in SuJJex the Ox-eye. 



a-v. 21 }. Raii fyn. az>. HO. 



Cinclus five Motacilla Mari- N. Com. Petr. IV. 428. 



tima, Lyfsklicker. Ge/ncr L'Allouette de Mer, Cinclus. 



av. 616. Briffbn a-v. V. 211. tab, 19. 



Giarolo. Aldr. a<v. III. 1S8. fig. I. 



The Stint. Wil. orn. 305. Tringa cinclus. Lin. fiyfi. 251. 



Br. Zool, 126. 



Descrit. /TpHIS bird weighs about an ounce and a half: 

 A length feven inches and a half: extent fourteen 

 inches : the head and hind part of the neck are afh 

 colored, marked with dufky lines : a white ftroke 

 divides the bill and eyes : the chin white : under- 

 fide of the neck mottled with brown : the back is 

 of a brownifh afh color: the bread and belly 

 white : the coverts of the wings and tail a dark 

 brown, edged with light afh color or white : the 

 greater coverts dufky, tipt with white : the upper 

 part of the quil-feathers dusky, the lower white : 

 the two middle feathers of the tail dusky, the reft 

 of a pale afh color, edged with white : the legs of 

 a dusky green -, the toes divided to their origin. 

 The bill an inch and a half long, (lender and black ; 

 i rides dusky. 



Thele birds come in prodigious flocks on our 



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