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with dull yellow: tail dufky olive; ends of the outmoft feathers white. 

 Colors of the female duller. Weight four t)unces. Length ten 

 inches. 

 PhkCE, Inhabits Europe, even as high as Lapmark. Firft appears in Dron- 



th'eim i then feeks the Lapland 3\^s,. Returns in fmaller numbers. 

 Appears in May at Upfaly in its paflage northward. Breeds in all the 

 north of Rujfia and Sibiria ; but appears in the temperate latitude* 

 only in their migrations- 



B, Alexandrine.— Charadrius Alexandrinus, Lin. Sjjl. 253. — Brunnkh, App. p. 77. 

 — Hajfelquiji Itin. 256. — Latham, iii. 



T)L. With a black bill : a white line over each eye, and collar round 



the neck : head, upper part of body, and coverts of wings, light 



. cinereous brown : primaries dufky ; from the fifth to eighth marked 



with an oblong white fpot on the exterior margin : fecondaries dufky, 



tipt with white : middle feathers of the tail blackC outmoft white : 



under fide of the body white : legs duflcy blue. Size between a 



Lark and aThrufh. 



Place. Found in the diocefe of Droniheim, Norway. Common about the 



fait lakes between the rivers Jrgun and Onon ; but not obferved in 



any other part of Ruffia or 'SiMria. Inhabits alfo the canal which 



conveys water from the Nile to Alexandria *. 



• Hafeljuiji Itin, 256. 



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