BIRDS. GRALL.E. 3S. Tringa. 53 



186. T. nigricans. Base of the bill and leg's red : head 

 and neck dusky black : back and scapulars purple 

 black, with cinereous edges ; chin and middle of the 

 belly whife. 



Purple Sandpiper. Transact. Linn. Soc. 4. j&. 40. tab. 2. 

 a. Bill yellow at the bafe. Linn. Trans. 4. p. 22. t. i. 



Length 8 inches and a half : extent above 15 : weight 2 oz. & a half. 



Bill black at the point: eyelids whitish : back and shoulders with. 

 ;: purplish tinge : wing-coverts black tipt with white : primary 

 -(/'lilts dusky with white shafts and edges; fecondaries paler with 

 white tips, inner-most nearly white : chin whitish : neck and breast 

 dusky with white lines: sides with dusky fpots : middle tail- 

 feathers black, the outer-ones dark grey. 



1ST. T. ochropus. Bill dotted at the point: back and 

 scapulars brown with a green gloss, with roundish 

 white spots : chin, belly, and outmost tail-feathers 

 white : legs dull green. 



'Green Sandpiper. Lewin t. 171. Linn. Trans. i../>. 130. t. 2. 



Length full 16 inches : extent 18 : weight 3 oz. and a quarter. 



Bill dusky : iris hazel : crown and nape dusky-grey : face dusky t 

 over the eyes a dirty white streak : neck and breast with dusky 

 streaks : sides dusky with angular white lines : wing-coverts brow 

 with a green gloss : quills dusky : tail-feather?,) except the outer- 

 ones, barred with black : the coverts white. 



r!88. T. Glareola. Bill smooth : above dusky with white- 

 ish spots, beneath white : neck cinereous. 



Wood Sandpiper. Arct. Zool \\.p. 482. G. 

 Length 9 inches : weight 2 ounces and a quarter. 



Bill dull green at the bafe, black towards the point : iris dusky : 

 from the bill to the eyes a dusky streak, over which is a white-one : 

 ears dusky : neck dusky with grey lines: chin and throat white: 

 quills black, some of them tipt with white: tail barred black and 

 whitish : legs long, olive-green. 



-189. T. grenovicensis. Variegated with dusky, grey, and 

 pale ferruginous : neck pale grey beneath : belly, 

 vent, and sides of the rump white. 



Greenwich Sandpiper. Lewin t. 181. Walcot. t. 154. 



Length 12 inches and a half: weight nearly 8 ounces. 



Bill black : crown reddish-brown with black streaks: cheeks and 

 neck pale grey with dusky shafts : feathers of the back, shoulders, and 

 coverts dusky with pale ferruginous margins : quills dusky, the 

 shafts more or lefs white : tail brownish-grey, clouded and tipt 

 with pale ferruginous : legs dusky-green. 



,190. T. cinerea. Grey, with white and dusky crescent- 

 like spots : throat and belly white : rump white with 

 undulate black bars : tail-feathers edged with white. 



Ash-coloured Sandpiper. Lewin t. 172. JValcott. 147. 



Length 10 inches : extent 20 inches : weight 5 ounces. 



Bill black : head and neck ash-colour fpotted with black : back artd 

 shoulders grey, with dirty-white curved marks : outer-quills dusky, 

 more or less edged with white : breast and sides white fpotted with 

 black : legs dusky-green : toss edged with a narrow finely fcalloped 

 membrane. 



:J91. T. maritima. Variegated dusky ash-colour and grey, 

 beneath white : throat and tail dusky : feathers of 

 the breast fringed with white : 4 lateral tail-feathers 

 edged with white. 



