PURPLE SANDPIPER 



SELNINGER SANDPIPER BLACK SANDPIPER SEA SANDPIPER. 



PLATE CLXXVIII. FIGURE II. 



Tringa striata, LINNAEUS. 



Tringa maritima, ..... YARRELL. 

 Tringa nigricans, ..... MONTAGU. 



THE nest of this occasional winter visitant, which breeds 

 in Northern Europe, is fitted in some deep hollow in 

 the ground, with a little moss or other herbage for a lining. 

 It is sometimes built in the middle of a clump of short 

 grass. 



The eggs are four in number. They are of a pyriform, 

 i.e., pear shape, varying from pale olive to pale buffish 

 brown, with small irregular spots of darker brown, crowded 

 at the larger end. They appear to be laid at the end of 

 June or beginning of July. 



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