82 GAMBET SANDPIPER. Class II. 



10. Gambet. Tringa Gambetta. Tr. rostro Raii Syn. av. II7. 



pedibusque rubris, corpore ji^ldr. av. 



luteo cinereoque variegato, Totanus ruber. Brisson, v. 



subtus albo. Lath. Ind. orn. I92. PL EnL 845. Scopoli, 



728. id. Sj/7i. V. I&7. No. 142. 



Tringa Gambetta. Gm. Lin. Tringa variegata. Bninmch^ 



248. Faun. Suec. No. I77. No. 181. 



Gambetta. Wil. orn. 300. Arct. Zool. li. 183. 



Descrip- xHIS species is of the size of the green- 



TION. 



shank : the head, back, and breast, cinereous 

 brown, spotted Mith dull yellow ; the coverts of 

 the wings, scapulars, cinereous, edged with yel- 

 low; the primaries dusky ; the shaft of the first 

 feather white ; belly white ; tail dusky, border- 

 ed with yellow ; legs yellows 



It has been shot on the coast of Lincoln- 

 shire. 



[It has also been found in Sussex, Hamp- 

 shire, Caerinarthenshire, and other maritime 

 counties, but is said not to appear far inland. 

 Is migratory, and observed here only in the 

 summer months. Ed. 



