40 Mr. Mon acv’s Deferiptions of 
2. TRINGA NIGRICANS.—PHAYRELARN SANDPIPER. 
Tr. cinereo-nigricans, gula abdomineque medio albis, roftro bafi 
pedibufque rubris. 
THIS non-defcript fpecies of Zringa was killed at Larn, or 
Lougharne, on the coaft of Carmarthenfhire in Wales, January 20, 
1792, and prefented to me by my friend Robert Phayre, Efq. which 
induced me to give it the above trivial name. It was fhot in com- 
pany with its congenera the Purre (Tringa Cinéius), &c. All I could 
learn was, that, at the time it was killed, the weather was very 
fevere, and that two others had been fhot there the fame feafon, 
is 8 and were called ‘by the fifhermen Red-/egs. 
In fize it rather exceeds the Purre: the length was eight inches 
and a half;. the bill flender, an inch and a quarter long, tapering 
towards the poi a little curved, and of a dull red colour, except 
at the apex and. fides ; ; the irides hazel; the head and neck dufky 
black 5. eye-lids 1 whitifh; the throat Witites ; back and fcapulars 
black, edged | with afh-colour; the wing-coverts black tipt with 
white; quill feathers black, flightly edged with white on the exte- 
rior. webs; thafts white; breaft and all beneath white, prettily 
fpotted with black, except the middle of the beily and vent; the 
rump black; the two middle feathers of the tail black, the outer 
one cinereous, a the reft duiky ; the legs and toes dull red; claws 
black and blunt; toes ne rly divided to their origin ; middle’ toe an 
inch long. 
This bird is now in my Eplcction, from which I have taken the 
figure annexed, Tab, ue Fé Ag 
* Mr. Latham fafpedrs ne rons offibly be the Purple Sandpiper figured by Mr. Wai- 
cot in his fecond volume of Britith ! ds. 
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