130 GRALLATORES. MACHETES. RUFF. 



RUFF. 



MACHETES PUGNAX, Cuvier. 

 PLATE XXV. FIGS. 1. 2. and 3. 



Machetes pugnax, Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 490 Steph. Shaw's Zool. 12. 110 



pi. 16. fern. 

 Tringa pugnax, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 631 Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 110. 



sp. 158. 

 Fighting Ruff, Shaw's Zool. 12. 110. pi. 16. 



( Tringa pugnax, Linn. Syst. 1. 247. 1 Gmel. Syst. 1. 669 Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 725. sp. 1 Rail Syn. 107- A. 3 Will. 224. t. 56. 

 Le Combattant ou Paon de Mer, Buff. Ois. 7. 581. pi. 29. and 37. 

 Summer Be'casseau combattant, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 631. 



plumage of j streitshandlaufer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 266 Meyer, Tasschenb. 



3. 377. 

 Ruff and Reeve, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. No. 172. pi. 69 Arct. Zool. 2. 479. A. 



Will. (Angl.) 302. t. 56 Albin. 1. 1. 72. 73. Lath. Syn. 5. p. 159. 1. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet. 2. Id. Sup. Bewick's Br. Birds, 2. t. pL 95. 



1 Tringa littorea, Linn. Syst. 1. 251. 17 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 731. sp. 15. 

 Totanus cinereus, Briss. 5. 203, 7. t. 17. f. 2. 

 Le Chevalier varie, Buff. Ois. 7. 517. 

 Shore Sandpiper, Arct. Zool, 2. 481. f.Lath. Syn. 5. 171. 

 Tringa Grenovicensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 731. sp. 16. 

 Greenwich Sandpiper, Lath. Syn. Sup. p. 249. 



both sexes. 



Young and (Tringa equestris, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 730. 14. 

 Old after J Le Chevalier commun, Buff. Ois. 7. 511. 

 autumnal ) Equestrian Sandpiper, Lath. Syn. Sup. 2. 311. 

 moult. (Yellow-legged Sandpiper, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 2. App. 



THIS bird, so remarkable for its combative disposition, 

 and the extraordinary plumage that distinguishes the male 

 at a certain period of the year, is among the number of our 

 Periodical summer visitants ; arriving in the fenny districts of Lincoln- 

 visitant, shire, the Isle of Ely, and other marshy parts of England, 

 in the month of April, and departing, on its equatorial mi- 

 gration, towards the end of September, or early in the fol- 

 lowing month. In its polygamous nature, this species differs 

 from the rest of its congeners ; such peculiarity producing, 

 of course, the difference of habits that so remarkably distin- 

 guishes it during the season of reproduction ; in this respect 

 becoming assimilated to the polygamous species of other 



