ORDER GRALL.E. 3*21 



Cayenne Sandpiper. Parra Cayennensis, Enl. 836. 



Back, purple-green ; neck, reddish ; forehead, throat, 

 chest-band, and tail, black ; edge of wings, belly, and 

 base of tail, white. Cayenne. The Charadrius 

 Lampronotus^ Wagler. The Terutero, Azara, n. 

 386. 



Goa Sandpiper J Lath. P. Goensis, Enl. 8O7. 



Head, neck, quills, and tail-band, black ; line on side 

 of neck, chest, belly, wing-band, and base of tail, 

 white. India. The Charadrius Atrogularis, Wag- 

 ler. 



Senegal Sandpiper^ Lath. P. Senegalla, Lin, Enl. 

 362, or better Vanellus Alhicapillus, Vieill. Gal. 

 236. 



Brown ; throat, quills, and tail-band, black ; wing- 

 band, belly, base, and tip of tail, white. The Cha- 

 radrius Alblcapillus, Wagler. 



Louisiana Sandpiper ^ Lath. P. Ludoviciana, Enl. 

 from which Van. Gallinaceus^ Tern, probably does 

 not differ specifically. 



Grey-brown ; beneath, and base of tail, reddish- white ; 

 crown, quills, band on tail, black. 



The manners, legs, bill, form, and the distribution 

 of their colours in these birds, resemble the lapwing 

 and the plovers. There was no reason to place these 

 with the jacanas, which have other characters in 

 nearly all these points. 



Tr. Macropteraf Cuv. 

 Grey, with the head and belly black, armed and 



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