90 COMMON SANDPIPER. Class II. 



the belly and vent white ; the tail cinereous ; the 

 two middle feathers longer than the rest ; the 

 legs black. Size that of the former. 



15. Common. Tringa Hypoleucos. Tr. ros- Snappa, Strandsittare. Faun. ^ 



tro laevi, pedibus cinereis, Suec. sp. 182. 



corpore cinereo subtus albo. Guinetta, la Guignette. JBn's- 



Lath. Ind. orn. 734. id. son av. v. 183. tah. l6. Jig. 



Syn.v. 178. 1. Hist, d'ois. vii. 540. PL 



Gallinula hypoleucos (Fyster- Enl. 850. 



lin). Gesner av.dOQ. Norv egis der liWe Myrstlkkeh 



Aldr. av. iii. 182. Bornholmis Virlen. BruU" 



Wil. orn. 301. nich, 174. 



Rail Syn. av. 108. Martin's ScopoU, No. 143. 



SandlaufFerl. Kram. 353. Br. Zool. 125. Arct. Zool. ii. 



Tringa hypoleucos. Gm. Lin. 180. 

 678. 



This species agrees with the green sand- 

 piper in its manners and haunts, but is more 

 common; its note is louder and more piping 

 Descr:p- than others of this genus. Its weight is about 

 two ounces ; the head is brown, streaked with 

 downward black lines ; the neck is of an ob- 

 scure ash color; the back and coverts of the 

 wings brown, mixed with a glossy green, ele- 

 gantly marked with transverse dusky lines ; over 

 each eye is a white stroke ; the breast and belly 

 are of a pure white ; the quil feathers are brown, 

 the first entirely so, the nine next marked on the 

 inner web with a white spot ; the middle fea- 

 thers of the tail brown, the edges spotted with 



TION. 



