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ASH COLORED SANDPIPER. Class H. 



6. Ash co- 

 lored. 



Tringa cinerea. Tr. nigro 

 cinereo alboque lunato va- 

 ria, pectore et abdomine al- 

 bis, tectricibus caudse albo 

 nigroque fasciatis, rectrici- 

 bus margine albo. Lath. 

 Ind. orn. 733. id. St/n. v. 

 177. 



Tringa cinerea. Brunnich, or- 



nith. 53. 

 Tr. cinerea. Gm. Lin. 673. 

 Braun und Welssbunter Sand- 



IcEuffer? Frisch,\i.237. 

 Br. Zool. 124. Arct. Zool. ii. 



179- 



Descrip- XHIS species weighs five ounces: the length 

 is ten inches ; the breadth nineteen ; the head 

 , is of a brownish ash color, spotted with 

 I black; the whole neck ash color, marked with 



dusky oblong streaks ; the back and coverts of 

 the wings elegantly varied with concentric 

 semicircles of ash color, black and white ; the 

 coverts of the tail barred with black and white ; 

 the tail ash colored, edged with white ; the 

 breast and bellv of a pure white ; the legs of a 

 greenish black ; the toes bordered with a nar- 

 row membrane finely scolloped. 



These birds appear on the shores of Flint- 

 shire, in the winter time, in larsje flocks. 



