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the head, with a broad brown one on each side j belly white ; 

 feet lead-coloured. 16 inches long. Europe. Shaw, xii. pi. 5. 



Gen. 22. THINGA, Briss. Tern. 



Bill middle-sized, or long, very slightly arched, curved or 

 straight at the tip, soft and flexible through its whole length, 

 compressed at the base, depressed, dilated, and obtuse at the 

 point ; both mandibles channelled to near their extremities ; 

 nostrils lateral, conical, in the membrane which covers the 

 nasal furrow ; legs slender, naked above the knee ; the three 

 fore-toes quite divided ; but in a few species the middle and 

 outer toe are connected by a membrane ; the hinder articu- 

 lated to the tarsus. 



These birds frequent marshy soils near rivers, lakes, and seas, and search 

 the ooze, mud, shifting sands, or heaps of sea weed, thrown on the beach, in quest 

 of coleopterous insects, larvae, worms, mollusca, the contents of small bivalve shells, 

 &c. The young, before their first moulting, are very unlike their parents, and 

 the female is, for the most part, somewhat larger than the male. 



* Anterior toes entirely divided. 



T. subarquata, Tern. (Scolopax Africana, Gmel.) Red Sandpiper, 

 Penn. Back, scapulars, and wing-coverts brownish cinereous ; 

 face, throat, and under parts white ; a brown stripe between the 

 bill and eye j bill arched, much longer than the head ; the two 

 middle tail-feathers longer than the lateral ones ; tarsus fourteen 

 lines long. 7i inches long. Europe, &c. Tern. Man. 609. 



T. variabilis, Meyer. ( T. rujtcollis and Scolopax pusilla, Gmel.) 

 The Purre, Penn. Plumage brown cinereous above, white be- 

 low ; bill almost straight, black, slightly sloping at the tip, and 

 a little longer than the head ; the two middle tail- feathers longer 

 than the lateral ones, and terminating in a point ; length of the tar- 

 sus nearly twelve lines. 7 incheslong. Europe. ( B. Shaw, xii. pi. 15. 



In its winter plumage, Cinclns, and Cinclus minor, of Brisson ; and in its sum- 

 mer dress, T. alp'ina, Gmel. Lath. Wils. and Numenius variabilis, Bechst. At the 

 time of its two periodical moultings, it is the Cinclus torguatus^ and Gallinago An- 

 glicana, of Brisson. 



T. platyrhyncha, Tern. Bill slightly bent at the point, longer 

 than the head, much depressed at the base ; lateral feathers of 

 the tail equal, the two middle ones longer ; tarsus ten or eleven 

 lines long. 6^ inches long. Europe Tern. Man. 616. 



T. maritima, Brunn. (T.nigricans, Mont.) Purple Sandpiper, Shaw. 

 Bill slightly inclined at the point, longer than the head ; almost 

 no naked space above the knee ; feet and base of the bill reddish- 

 yellow ; tarsus ten lines long. 7i inches long. Europe Tern. 



Man. 619. 



T. Temminckiiy Leisler. Temminck's Sandpiper. Bill slightly in- 

 clined at the point, shorter than the head ; lateral feathers of the 

 tail graduated, the exterior pure white; tarsus eight lines long. 

 5 inches long. Inhabits Europe.- Tern. Man. 622. 



