S AGN D. Pi iP BUR: 
Tringa atra, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 738,—Naturf. xiii. p. 193. 
8 head and neck in this are black: back and wings pale brown, 
- mixed with black: breaft and belly cinereous: rump cinereous, 
undulated with white and black. 
Inhabits the banks. of the RAze. 
IZE of the Song Thrufh ; length nine inches: bill nearly one inch 
and a half lone, and flender; the bafe reddifh, the reft of its 
lenoth black: general colour of the plumage dufky plumbeous afh 
colour: the feathers on the back margined with afh colour; of the 
wing coverts and breaft, with greyifh white: the three firft quills 
dufky, with white fhafts; three of the inner ones juft fringed with 
white at the tips; the two or three next white, marked with ath co- 
lour on the outer web; then follow two or three almoft wholly whites. 
the reft plain dufky: the four middle tail feathers dufky, the others 
pale afh, fringed at the edges and tips with white: between the bill 
and eye, and the chin, dufky white, mottled: fore part of the neck 
plain afh colour: belly white ; fides of it, clofe to the wings, marked 
with a few dufky fpots: the thighs are (contrary to the ufual nature 
of the genus) covered with feathers quite to the knees, and even be- 
low the joint: legs fhort, and of a pale yellow colour, 
This was brought from Quebec, by General Davies. 
HIS is at leaft nineteen inches in leneth: the bill pale: irides 
yellow: the crown and nape are black: fides of the head, and 
round the eye, furnifhed with a carunculated yellow membrane, hang- 
ine down on each fide, in a pointed wattle: the neck and all beneath 
Supp. II, Sf is 
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PLACE, 
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