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DESCRIPTION. 
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is white; but the. fides of the breaft next the wings are black: back 
and wings olive brown, with a tinge of ruft colour: the quills and 
end of the tail black ; but the very tip of the laft is fringed with white: 
the bare part of the legs above the knee, and a {mall fpace below it, 
is of a rofe colour ; the reft black, with rofe coloured fegments: at the 
bend of each wing a ftout yellow fpur, fomewhat bent. 
Inhabits New South Wales; is fometimes met with in the flats going 
to Parramatta, but is not a common bird. It feems to be a {pecies- 
between the Louifiana and Senegal ere but -is clearly diftinét 
from either. 
HE bill in this is as long as the head, and dufky: plumage above 
rufty afh colour, crofled with numerous whitifh lines on the back 
and wings: the feathers on the outer ridge of the wing all edged with 
white: over the eye a white ftreak ; all the under parts pale, a little 
mottled or ftreaked: on the ears a brown patch, which paffes 
through the eye, but lefs diftinét: quills and tail dufky: legs dufky 
white. 
_Inhabits New South Wales. 
It may not be amifs again to remark the ereat uncertainty in re- 
fpeét to fome of the fpecies of Sandpiper, and in none more than the 
Ruff, of which we fufpect many fpecies to have been made during its 
advances to the adult, for the ma/e does not gain the Jone neck fea- 
thers the firft feafon, and afterwards only during breeding time: we 
have alfo had doubts whether our Egueftrian Sandpiper may not be a 
young bird of this fpecies: the fame alfo of the Selwinger and /triated 
fpecies ; and in refpect to the a/b-coloured Sandpiper, it is probable that 
on a longer acquaintance, it may prove merely the young of the Knot. 
Thefe are however hints only, thrown out for the fake of inciting 
others to a more ftriét inveftigation of the fubject. 
