22 Mr. Markwicx’s Catalogue of Birds 
few of thefe birds frequent: the’ banks of ;the river at Horfham, 
and in 1793 I was in -hopes that I fhould be able to afcertain 
whether it were fo or not; but I.could procure. only one of them, 
which proved to be the Tringa Ochropus. "The Tringa Glareola is de 
{cribed in the Firft Volume of the Linnean Tranfactions. 
No. 119.—The common Sandpiper. Iringa Hypoleucos. 
This is a folitary bird, frequenting the fides of ponds and rivu= — 
lets. I never had but’ one in my polfeffion, and that I thot by the 
fide of | a range ml i in ‘the ‘year 1773+ a1 if 
Sea $ Blades Tringa maritima. - Lath, Orn wt. 
- 7. fi n. 18. 
On the a gt Deeemaber 1796 a {mall flock, cer of ten 
or ens e birds, were feen on the fea-coaft’ near Bexhill: 
two of th : fee hot and brought to me. 
t h as m th e tip of the bill to the end of the tail i is 
les and an half; its breadth from tip to tip of the 
1 exte ended, fifteen inches and an half. Its bill is an 
inch ane carter | long, yellow from the bafe half way, and the tip 
1 is two ounces ‘and an half. The head, neck, 
fhot ders. d back are of a dark dufky afh-colour, with the 
edges-of | e feather on the back fomewhat lighter : the prime 
quill, feathers of the wings are dufky, with their fhafts white, par- 
ticularly the firft: the fecondary quills are lighter, with white 
tips; and the hindermoft are almoft white, having only one dufky 
fpot. The tail is fhort, and confifts of twelve feathers, of which 
the four middlemoft are of a dark dufky colour, and the four on 
each fide gradually fhorter, and of a pale ath-colour edged with 
white. ‘The under-fide of the neck and breaft dufky, with the fea-_ 
thers on the breaft fringed with white. The chin, lower part of the 
breaft, 
