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PURPLE SANDPIPER. 



SELNINGER SANDPIPER. BLACK SANDPIPER. SEA SANDPIPER. 



PLATE CLXXVIII. FIG. II. 



Tringa inaritima, 

 Tringa Lincolniensis, 

 Tringa nigricans, 

 Tringa striata, 



PENNANT. 

 PENNANT. 



MONTAGU. 

 FLEMING. 



THE nest of this species is fitted in some hollow in the ground with 

 a little moss or other herbage for a lining. It is built on mountains 

 among small pools of water, in the middle of a clump of grass. 



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

 yellowish grey colour, with small irregular spots of pale brown, crowded 

 at the obtuse end and rare at the other. They appear to be laid at 

 the end of June, or beginning of July. 



The figure on the plate is from a specimen forwarded by J. K. De 

 Capel Wise, Esq., of Lincoln College, Oxford. 



