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Tringa Lincolniensls. Tr. al- rectricibus duabus interme- g. Black. 



ba, supra maculis griseis fus- diis toto nigris. Lath. Ind. 



cisque varia, subtus macu- orn. 734. id. Sup. i.251. 

 lis oblongis fuscis et nigris, 



-ftj-R. Bolton favored us with a description of 

 this species shot in Lincolmhire. 



It was the size of a thrush ; the beak short, Descrip^ 

 blunt at the point and dusky ; the nostrils 

 black ; the irides yellow ; the head small and 

 flatted at top ; the color white, most elegantly 

 spotted with grey; the neck, shoulders, and 

 back, mottled in the same manner, but darker, 

 being tinged with brown ; in some lights these 

 parts appeared perfectly black and glossy; 

 the wings were long ; the quil feathers black, 

 crossed near their base with a white line ; the 

 throat, breast, and belly white, with faint 

 brown and black spots of a longish form, irre- 

 gularly dispersed; but on the belly became 

 larger and more round ; the tail short, entirely 

 white, except the two middle feathers, which 

 were black; the legs long and slender, and of 

 reddish brown color.* 



* Suspected by Mr. Montagu to be the young of his purple 

 Sandpiper, the Selninger of the Arctic Zoology. Ed. 



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