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SELNINGER 
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FASCIATED 
Die 
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SIBIRIAN 
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Puage. 
SrAqNi D PU, PEER. 
fides of the head are minute fpecks of the fame: chin, belly, thighs, 
vert, and rump, white: the two middle tail feathers rufous brown, 
with black bands; the others plain pale rufous brown. 
Inhabits Evrope; fometimes on the fhores of England, but rarely *. 
Tringa maritima, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 731. 18.—Brux. Orn. p. 54. 182. 
Sea Sandpiper, Linn. Tranf. iv. p. 22. pl. 4. 
Selninger Sandpiper, 4rd. Zool, ii. p. 481. E.—Gen. Syn. Ve Pp. 173+ 15 
E have the authority of Mr. Markwick to rank this among the 
Britifb fpecies. A flock of about ten or twelve being met 
with on the fea coaft near Bexbill, the 8th of December 17.96, of which 
two were fhot. I have likewife been informed, that feveral fpecimens 
have at times been killed on other coafts, in hard winters; and that 
they vary much at different periods of life; as the Stint, Dunlin, and 
others of this genus, which circumftance has we fear been the occafion 
of multiplying the number of fpecies unneceffarily : poflibly this and. 
the ftriated Sandpiper are one and the fame bird. 
Tringa fafciata, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 738.—F. G. Gmel.—It. ii. p. 194. t. 26. 
Tn this bird, the bill, crown, hind head, a ftreak through the eyes, 
and the belly, are black: the forehead and the tail, which is 
rounded in fhape, aré white. 
Inhabits Affrachan. 
Tringa Keptufchca, Jud. Ora. ii. p. 738.—Lepech. It. ii. p. 229. 
AL HIS has an afh coloured body, a black crown, a dufky belly, 
growing rufous towards the bottom. 
Found in the marfhes of Sibiria. 
* Five shot at Sawdwich this fpring, with pale orange legs. Mr. Bays. 
