Class II. GREENWICH SANDPIPER. 91 



black and pale red ; the exterior tipt and bar- 

 red with white ; the legs of a dull pale green. 



Tringa Grenovlcensis. Tr. crisso uropygiique lateribus l6. Green« 



corpore supra vario, coUo albis. Lath. Ind. orn, 731. 



subtus cinereo, abdomine id. Sup. i. 249. 



[DR, Latham has given a trivial name to this 

 bird from the place where it was killed, and 

 thus describes it as a new species : 



'' Size of the redshank ; weight near eight Descrip- 



TION. 



ounces ; length twelve inches and a half; bill 

 an inch and a half long, black ; crown of the 

 head reddish brown streaked with black ; nape, 

 cheeks, and neck, ash color ; the middle of the 

 feathers dusky down the shaft; lower part of 

 the neck and back black ; the feathers margined 

 on the sides with pale ferruginous, and some of 

 those of the back at the tips also ; chin nearly 

 white; fore part of the neck very pale ash 

 color, as far as the breast, which is of a dusky 

 white ; belly, sides, vent, and upper tail coverts, 

 on each side, and whole of the mider ones, 

 white ; lesser wing coverts ash color, the greater 

 the same, obscurely margined with pale ferru- 

 ginous ; greatest tipped with white 5 under wing 

 coverts pure white; prime quils dusky; the 

 shafts more or less white ; secondaries and sca- 

 pulars nearly the color of the back ; the secon- 



