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BRITISH BIRDS. 



THE KNOT. 



RED SANDPIPER. 

 SUMMER PLUMAGE. 



(Tringa Cincrca, Linn. Becasscau canut, Temm.) 



THE above iigure was taken from the stuffed 

 specimen of a bird shot at Sunderland, and pre- 

 sented to this work by Mr. Bullock, of the London 

 Museum. It weighs between four and five ounces, 

 and measures ten inches in length, and about 

 nineteen in breadth. The bill is rather thick at 

 the base, black, grooved on both mandibles, and 

 about an inch and a half long from the tip to the 

 brow~, whence, over the head and down the hinder 

 part of the neck, it is streaked with rufous and dark 

 brown; between the bill and the eyes, and the 

 auriculars, it is spotted and streaked with the same 



