aSQ SANDPIPER. 



tliers margined on the fides with pale ferruginouSj and fome of 

 thofe of the back at the tips alfo: chin nearly white : fore part of 

 the neck very pale afh-colour, as far as the breaft, which is of a 

 dufky white : belly, fides, vent, and upper tail coverts on each 

 fide, and whole of the under ones, white : lefler wing coverts afh- 

 colour J the greater, the fame, obfcurely margined with pale fer- 

 ruginous ; greateft tipped with white ; under wing coverts pure 

 white: prime quills duflcy, the fhafcs more or lefs white ; feconda- 

 ries and fcapulars nearly the colour of the back ; the fecondaries 

 and primaries very little differing in length : the lower part of 

 the back, rump,, and iniddle of the tail coverts, afh-colour: tail 

 a. little rounded at the end, brawnifh afh-colour, fomewhat mot- 

 tled with brownifh near the tips, and fringed near the end with 

 pale ferruginous: legs dufky olive green, bare an inch above the 

 knee : the outer and middle toe conne^5ted at the bafe. 

 ?i.ACE.. The above was Hiot at Greenwich, on the 5th oi Auguft, 1785, 



by Dr. Leitht who did me the favour to add it to my colleftion. I 

 efteem it a new fpecie&. 



39. Bi'own Sandpiper, BV. ZoaL iU N<"i95> 



BROWN S» 



Description. C IZE of 2l J ackfnipe. Bill black : the head, upper part of the 



neck, and back, of a pale brown, fpotted with black : coverts 



of the wings dufky, edged with dirty white : under fide of the 



neck white, ftreaked with black : the belly white : tail cinereous % 



legs black. 



In the coUefllon of Mr. tunfidL Bought in the London 



market. 



Black 



