•GREEN AND^PURRE SANDPIPER. 475 



Sr.'Zool. ii. N" 201.— Le Becafleau, De Buffon, vii. J3J. — PI. Enl. 843. z'^9' Green. 



Tringa Ocrophus, Faun. Suec. N° 180.— Tr. Littorea ? Faun. Suec. N° iSj.'— ■ 

 ■ Latham, iii. — ^Lev. Mu3. . 



C, With head and upper part of the neck-cinereous brown, ftreak- 

 ed with white : lower part of neck mottled with brown and 

 -white : back, fcapulars, and coverts of wings, of a dufky green, 

 glofly as filk, and elegantly fpeckled with white: primaries dufky: 

 rump, bread, and belly, white : tail white, the feathers marked 

 with different numbers of fpots : legs a cinereous green. About a 

 third larger than the Common. 



I have feen this fpecies in Mr. Kuckan's coUeflion, which he mads Placi. 



in North America. It is alfo found in Iceland 5 and is very common 

 in all the watery places of Ruffia and Sibiria. The Tringa Littorea 

 is faid to migrate from Sweden to England^ at approach of winter *. 



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Br. Zool. n. N° 2o6.^Tringa Cindus, Lin. Sjjl. z^i. -^Latham, Iii. .g^ Purre 



L'Alouette de mer, De-Bltfyn, vii. 548. — ■?/. Enl. 8ji. — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mu5. 



•O^ "With a flender black bill: head and upper part of neck afli* 

 colored, ftreaked with black : from bill to eyes a white line : 

 under fide of the neck white, mottled with brown : back and co- *^ 



verts of wings a brownifh ajh-color : greater coverts dufky, tipt with 

 white : breaft. and belly wliite : two middle feathers of the tail' 

 dufky ; the others afli-color, edged with white : legs of a dufky green. 

 Weight an ounce and a half. Length feven inches and a half. 



Inhabits the coafl of New Tork, and extends as low as Jamaica. PtAci. 



and Cayenne. Not mentioned among the Scandinavian birds. Com- 

 mon i.i all latitudes of Rujfia and Sibiria. 



% .Aman> Acad, iv. ^^, 



3 P 2 Sri 



