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lvii, 5, it is spotted above, fawn-colour and blackish; underneath red. 
The Tr. nevia, Enl. 895, is an intermediate state. The coverts 
of the tail are always white striped with black, and its quills grey. 
Nearly as large as a Snipe. 
Tr. maritima, Brun.; Tr. nigricans, Montag., Lin. Trans. IV, 
pl. 11, f. 2; Brit. Zool. in fol., pl. c. 2, f. 1. (The Purple Sand- 
piper). Somewhat less than the preceding; grey; the mantle black- 
ish; wings undulated with whitish; whitish belly. It is common 
on the coast of Holland, rare in France. Always settles on 
stones*. fi 
ArenariaA, Bechst.—Catipnis, Vigors. 
The Sanderlings resemble the Sandpipers in every point but one, viz. 
they have no thumb, as is the case with the Plovers. 
The species known, Charadrius calidris, Gm. Briss. Y. pl. xx, 
§ 2; Vieill. Gal. 234, is, in winter, greyish above; front and un- 
derneath white; blackish wings, varied with white; Wils. VII, lix, 
A. In summer, its back is spotted with fawn-colour and black, and 
its breast dotted with blackish,—Char. rubidus, Wils. VII, Ixiii, 3+. 
Peripna, Cuv. 
The Sea-Larks are merely small Sandpipers, with a-bill somewhat 
longer than the head. The borders of their feet are insensible. 
Tringa cinclus and alpina; Alouette de mer (the Sea-Lark, or 
Small Sandpiper), is a third smaller than the Great Sandpiper, and 
like it, in winter, is ash-coloured above, white beneath, and the 
breast shaded with grey; in summer its plumage is fawn-coloured 
_ above, spotted with black, small black spots front of the neck and 
breast, and a black patch under the belly. It is then the Tr. alpina, 
Gm., or 7'r. cinclus, B. Enl. 852; Wils. VII, lvi, 2. The 77. 
cinclus, L., Enl. 851, is an intermediate state f. 
The Cocorui only differ from the Sea-larks by their bill being slightly 
arcuated. 
The species known, Scolopax subarcuata, Gm.; Numenius afri- 
canus, Lath.; Naum. 21, f. 28 and 20; f. 27 (Red Sandpiper), is, 
in winter, blackish above, undulated with grey and whitish beneath ; 
in summer the back is spotted with black and fawn-colour, the wings 
are grey, and the head and under part of the body red. It is found 
everywhere, though very rarely. The 
* Add, of European species: Tr. Temminckii, Leisler, Col. 41, 4;—Tr. minuta, 
Leis!. Naum. 21, f. 50. Of species foreign to that continent: TJ’. leucoptera, Gm., 
Lath. Syn. III, pl. Ixxxii;—7'r. albescens, Tem. Col. 41, 1;—Tr. maculosa, Vieill. 
Dict.;—7r. pusilla, Wils. pl. xxxvii, 4. Add, Tr. islandica, L., Wils. VIII, p. lvii, 
f):2;5.—Ene. Ep. 
+ It has been confounded with the Small Sandpiper, in its winter plumage, or 7'r. 
arenaria. Brisson, in particular, gives the figure of the one, and the description of 
the other. The Calidris tringoides, Vieill. Gal. 234, seems to be a bad figure of this 
bird in its semmer livery. i 
{ This is most probably the place for the Tringa macroptera, Spix, XCII (a). 
es (a) Add, Am. Spec. Tr. Schinzii, Brehm.;— Tr. pectoralis, Bonap.; — Ur. 
platyrhinca, Tem.—Ene. Ep. 
