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derness and flavour, to any other of the tribe with which I am 

 acquainted. 



This species is twelve inches long, and twenty-one in extent; 

 the bill is an inch and a half long, slightly bent downwards, and 

 wrinkled at the base, the upper mandible black on its ridge, the 

 lower, as well as the edge of the upper, of a fine yellow; front, 

 stripe over the eye, neck and breast, pale ferruginous, marked 

 with small streaks of black, whfth, on the lower part of the 

 breast, assume the form of arrow heads; crown black, the plu- 

 mage slightly skirted with whitish ; chin, orbit of the eye, whole 

 belly and vent, pure white; hind-head, and neck above, ferru- 

 ginous, minutely streaked with black; back and scapulars black, 

 the former slightly skirted with ferruginous, the latter with 

 white; tertials black, bordered with white; primaries plain black; 

 shaft of the exterior quill snowy, its inner vane elegantly pec- 

 tinated with white; secondaries pale brown, spotted on their 

 outer vanes with black, and tipt with white; greater coverts 

 dusky, edged with pale ferruginous, and spotted with black; 

 lesser coverts pale ferruginous, each feather broadly bordered 

 with white, within which is a concentric semicircle of black; 

 rump and tail-coverts deep brown black, slightly bordered with 

 white; tail tapering, of a pale brown orange colour, beautifully 

 spotted with black, the middle feather centred with dusky; legs 

 yellow, tinged with green; the outer toe joined to the middle 

 by a membrane; lining of the wings elegantly barred with black 

 and white; iris of the eye dark, or blue black, eye very large. 

 The male and female are nearly alike. 



Note. Whether the bird described by Temminck, (Man. 

 d'Orn.p. 650.) is identical with this species, will admit of some 

 doubt; although this excellent ornithologist says, that i6 les in- 

 dividus d' Europe et ceux d'Jlmerique ne different point." 

 Bartram's Sandpiper is known to our shooters by the name of 

 Grass Plover. It breeds in low grounds, in the state of New 

 Jersey. When watching its nest, it is fond of sitting upon fen- 

 ces; and on alighting, it throws up its wings in the manner of 



