TION. 



Class II. EQUESTRIAN SANDPIPER. 85 



It is of the size of a thrush : the forehead, Descrip- 

 throat, and belly white ; the breast black ; the 

 neck surrounded with a black collar j from 

 thence another bounds the sides of the neck, and 

 passes over the forehead ; the head and lower 

 part of the neck behind white ; the first streaked 

 with dusky lines ; the back ferruginous, mixed 

 w ith black ; the coverts of the tail white, crossed 

 with a black bar; the tail black, tipt with white ; 

 the coverts of the wings cinereous brown ; the 

 lower order edged with white; the primaries 

 and secondaries black; the ends of the last 

 w^hite ; the tertials ferruginous and black ; the 

 legs rather short, and of a full orange. 



Tringa equestris. Tr. pedibus Le Chevalier commun. Hisi. 12. Eques= 

 vlrescentibus, dorso fusco (Tois. vii. 511. PL Enl. trian. 



variOjabdomineuropygioque 844. 



albo. Lath. Ind. orn. 730. 

 id. Sup. ii. 311. 



[THIS specieS; first noticed by Dr. Latham in 

 his second supplement, is twelve inches long ; 

 the bill dusky ; the legs* pale grey ; the body 

 above rufous grey, clouded with brown ; the 

 sides of the head, fore part of the neck and 

 breast white, clouded with paler brown ; on 

 the sides of the head are minute specks of the 



* The legs of five shot near Sandwich, by Mr. Boi/s, in 1800^ 

 were of a pale orange. Ed. -• 



