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white line ; the throat, breast, and belly are white, 

 with faint brown and black spots, of a longish form, 

 irregularly dispersed ; the tail is sharp and white, 

 except the two middle feathers, which are black ; the 

 legs are long and slender, and of a reddish brown 

 colour. (Pennant.) 



10. MARITIMA. ) 



NIGRICANS, Syn. >PURPLE SAND-PIPER, 

 STRIATA of GMELIN. \ 



Tr. griseo nigroque varia subtus alba, jugulo caudaque 

 obscurisy rectricibus lateralibus qualuor albo mar- 

 ginatis Lath. 



The bill is slender, one inch and a quarter long, 

 tapering towards the point, a very little curved, and 

 of a dull red colour, except at the apex and sides, 

 which are dusky; irides hazel; the head and -neck 

 are dusky black ; the eye-lids whitish ; the throat is 

 white ; the back and scapulars are black, glossed 

 with purple, and edged with ash colour; the wing- 

 coverts are ash, tipped with white; the large ones 

 above the pinions are doubly so ; the quills are black, 

 slightly edged with white on the exterior webs, except 

 three of the secondaries, which are almost wholly 

 white ; these, with the white tipped coverts, form a 

 slight oblique bar on the wing, when extended ; the 

 shafts are white ; the breast and all beneath white, 

 prettily spotted with black, except the middle of the 



