ORDER GRALL^. 377 



White-winged Sandpiper. Tr. Leucoptera. Gm. 

 Lath. Syn. III. pi. Ixxxii. 



Head to below the eyes, hind-neck, and back, brown- 

 ish-black ; chin, throat, rump, and breast, ferrugi- 

 neous ; belly and vent, yellowish. Otaheite. 



Tringa Albescens. Tem. PI. Col. 41. 1. 



Above with large black meshes, bordered with red ; 

 beneath, clean pale-red ; two lateral quills, white. 

 From Oceania. 



Tr. Maculosa. Vieill. Diet. 



Feathers of the head and neck above, of the top of 

 the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, brown on the 

 middle, clear-grey on the edges ; lower part of back, 

 rump, upper and middle tail-coverts, uniform-brown ; 

 beneath, dirty-white, marked with longitudinal brown 

 spots. Antilles and Southern United States. 



Tr. Pusilla. Wils. pi. xxxvii. 4. 



Bill, shorter than the head, straight; rump, blackish; 

 middle tail-feathers, longest; lateral, equal, dark-cine- 

 reous, edged with white ; tarsus equal to the bill, 

 eight lines long. North and South America. 



Northern Sandpiper. Lath. Hist. n. 54. Tringa 

 Rufescens. Vieill. Gal. t. 238. Yarrel. Lin. Trans, 

 xvi. ij. t. 



Rather less than the common snipe ; feathers, dusky- 

 black, with rufous margins; beneath, buff- white; two 

 middle tail-feathers longest. Found in Louisiana, in 



