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bordered or dotted on the edge with whitish; 1; the ump white, 
and the tail striped with brown and white, t we charac era which 
exist more or less in all the species of Europe; | feet of ¢ a reddish 
brown. In winter the belly and breast. become white, when it 
is almost ash coloured above, with red feet. It is then the 
Grand Chevalier a pieds roges, Scol. calidris, L. Enl. 876.(1) 
Tringa gambetta, Gm. Gambette; Enl. 845; Frisch, 240, 
Naum. 9, f. 9. In summer, brown above, with black spots, and 
some few white ones, on the edges of the feathers; white be- 
neath with brown spots, particularly on the breast and neck; 
red feet; numerous brown and white stripes on the tail. In win- 
ter its spots are nearly effaced, and the mantle is of an almost 
uniform grey; in this state it is the fig.,. Eni. fe" gee size is a 
third less. 
Totanus stagnatilis, Bechst.; Chevillier 2 dongs piedss Bonelli. 
Something smaller than the preceding, but Ths longer and more 
slender legs: in summer its back is brown, with irregular black 
spots; its belly white, and brown spots mark the neck and 
breast. In winter the mantle becomes of a upiforgn ee nei and . 
the under part of the body white. The smipeey the tail are 
irregular and parallel to its edges. > > 
Tringa ochropus, L.; Le Béecasseau; Enl.. 848. A bronze-black, 
above, the edges of the feathers dotted with whitish; white. be- 
neath, spotted with grey on the forepart of the neck and on the | 
sides; only three black bands on the lower half of the tail; feet, 
greenish; still smaller than either of the two preceding ones. 
It is much esteemed as game, and is common along the banks 
of rivulets in Europe, although it is rather a solitary bird. 
Tringa glareola, Gm.; Bécasseau des bois, chiefly differs from 
the preceding in Ha from seven to eight blackish stripes | : 
along the whole length of the tail. The pale spots on its. back . 
are broader. The spots on the neck and breast almost totally 
disappear in winter. 
Tot. macularius, Wils. VII, lix, 1, 2?(2) Tringa hypoleucos, 
L.; La guignette, Enl. 850. The smallest of the European spe- 
cies, being about as large as a Pelidna (Zr. alpina, Gm.); 
a bronzed greenish-brown, with transverse, fawn coloured 
and black marks on the wings; beneath and in front, whites. 
rump, and the middle quills of the tail, colour of the back, the 
lateral ones only being striped with black and white as in the 
(1) Under the wrong name of Barge grise. 
(2) This mark of doubt may be removed: it is not the Tot. ache Wils. 
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