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BUEE. 



REEVE, (FEMALE.) FIGHTING BUFF. SHORE SANDPIPER. EQUESTRIAN SANDPIPER. 

 YELLOW-LEGGED SANDPIPER. GREENWICH SANDPIPER. 



PLATE CLXXI. 



Jtfachetes pugnax, GOULD. SELBT. 



Tringa pugnax, PENNAM. MONTAGU. 



Tringa equestris, LATHAM. 



Tringa littorea, LINN.ECS. LATHAM. 



Totanus cineretis, BBISSOK. 



THE Reeve begins to lay the first or second week in May, and the 

 young are hatched the beginning of June. The nest, made of coarse 

 grass, is placed on some hillock among the same, or among sedge, or 

 rushes. 



The eggs are subject to considerable variety; some are of a beautiful 

 green ground colour, others olive brown, spotted with darker brown. 

 They are four in number. 



