Class II. RUFF SANDPIPER. 



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end, base yellow ; irides light hazel ; head and 

 neck cinereous, streaked with dusky ; the up- 

 per parts of the body cinereous brown; the 

 middle of each feather dusky ; wing coverts the 

 same ; beneath the spurious wing a small patch 

 of white ; primary quil feathers dusky, the first 

 w ith a white shaft ; secondaries white half way 

 fi'om their tips; the under parts white; rump 

 the same ; the tail and its upper coverts cinere- 

 ous brown; under tail coverts speckled with 

 dusky ; legs orange yellow." Ed. 



Tringa pugnax. Tr. rostro pe- 

 dibusque rufis, rectricibus 

 tribus lateralibus immacula- 

 tis, facie papillis granulatis 

 carneis. Lath. Ind. orn. 

 725. id. Syn. v. I59. 



Avis pugnax. Aldr. av. iii. 

 167. 



JVil. orn. 302. 



Rail Syn. av. IO7. 



Krossler. Kram. 352 



Tringa pugnax. Gm. Lin. 



Brushane. Faun. Suec. sp. 4^ Ruff. 



175. 

 Le Combattant, ou Paon de 



mer. Brisson av. v. 240. 



tab. 22. Hist, d'ois. vii. 521. 



PL Enl. 305, 306. 

 Danis Bruushane. Brunnich, 



168. 

 Streitschnepfe, Rampfhsehn- 



lein. Frisch, ii. 232, 235. 

 Scopoli, No. 140. 

 Br. Zool. 123. Arct. Zool. ii. 



185. 



XHE males, or Ruffs, assume such a variety 

 of colors in several parts of their plumage, that 

 it is scarcely possible to see two alike ; but the 

 great length of the feathers on the neck, which 



