130 GRALLATORES. MACHETES. Rurr. 
RUFF. 
Macueres PpuGNAX, Cuvier. 
PLATE XXV. Fries. 1. 2. and 3. 
Machetes pugnax, Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 490.—Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 110 
pl. 16. fem. 
Tringa pugnax, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 631.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 110. 
sp. 158. 
Fighting Ruff, Shaw’s Zool. 12. 110. pl. 16. 
Tringa pugrax Linn. Syst. 1. 247. 1.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 669.—Lath. Ind. 
Orn. 2. 725. sp. 1.—Raii Syn. 107. A. 3.—Will. 224. t. 56. 
Le Combattant ou Paon de Mer, Buff: Ois. 7. 581. pl. 29. and 37. 
Bécasseau combattant, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 631. 
Streitshandlaiifer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 266.—Meyer, Tasschenb. 
Summer 
plumage of 
—Will. (Angl.) 302. t. 56.— Albin. 1. t. 72. 73.—Lath. Syn. 5. p. 159. 1. 
both sexes. 2. 377. 
Ruff and Reeve, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. No. 172. pl. 69.—Arct. Zool. 2. 479. A. 
— Mont. Ornith. Dict. 2. Id. Sup.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 2. t. pl. 95. 
Totanus cinereus, Briss. 5. 203, 7. t. 17. fi 2. 
Le Chevalier varié, Buff: Oils. nes ly 3 
Shore Sandpiper, Arct. Zool, 2. 481. f.—Lath. Syn. 5. 171. 
Tringa Grenovicensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 731. sp. 16. 
Greenwich Sandpiper, Lath. Syn. Sup. p. 249. 
Young of 
'Tringa littorea, Linn. Syst. 1. 251. 17.—Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 731. sp. 15. 
the year. : 
Old after ) Le Chevalier commun, Buff: Ois. 7. 511. 
autumnal ) Equestrian Sandpiper, Lath. Syn. Sup. 2. 311. 
Young and (Tringa equestris, L ath. Ind. Orn. 2. 730. 14. 
moult. i Yellow-legged Sandpiper, Mont. Ornith. Dict. 2 . App. 
Tuts bird, so remarkable for its combative disposition, 
and the extraordinary plumage that distinguishes the male 
at a certain period of the year, is among the number of our 
Periodical SUMMer visitants; arriving in the fenny districts of Lincoln- 
visitant. shire, the Isle of Ely, and other marshy parts of England, 
in the month of April, and departing, on its equatorial mi- 
gration, towards the end of September, or early in the fol- 
lowing month. In its polygamous nature, this species differs 
from the rest of its congeners; such peculiarity producing, 
of course, the difference of habits that so remarkably distin- 
guishes it during the season of reproduction; in this respect 
becoming assimilated to the polygamous species of other 
