80 SELNINGER SANDPIPER. Class II. 



8. Selnin- Tringa maritima. Tr. griseo Leems. 254. 



GER. nigroque varia subtus alba, SeaSandpiper. £i«. TV. iv. 22. 



jiigulocaudaqueobscurlsrec- pi. 1, 



tricibus lateralibus quatuor Purple Sandpiper. Mont. orn. 



albo marginatis. Laik. Lid. diet. ? 



^ orn. 731. id. Sy7i.v. 173. id. Tringa nigricans. £m. TV. iv. 



Sup. ii. 312. 40. pi. 2. 



Brunnich, 182. Arct. Zool. ii. I96. 



[THE Selninger Sandpiper is thus described 

 by Mr. Pennant in the Arctic Zoology. 

 Descrip- " Above varied with grey and black ; the mid- 

 dle of the back tinged with violet ; forepart of 

 the neck dusky ; lower part of the body white ; 

 four outmost feathers on each side shorter than 

 the rest, and edged with white ; legs yellow." 



The plumage of Sandpipers varies so much 

 according to age and season, that it is difficult 

 to ascertain the various species with precision, 

 yet there is reason to believe that the above 

 corresponds with the birds discovered by Mr. 

 Markzvich on the coast of Susscv in 1796, and 

 described by him in the fourth volume of the 

 Linnean Transactions. Ed. 



TION. 



