9^ DUNLIN SANDPIPER. Class II. 



daries and primaries differing very little in 

 length ; the lower part of the back, rump, and 

 middle of the tail coverts, ash color; tail a 

 little rounded at the end, brownish ash color, 

 somewhat mottled with brownish near the tips, 

 and fringed near the end with a pale ferrugi- 

 nous; legs dusky olive green, bare an inch 

 above the knee ; the outer and middle toe con- 

 nected at the base." Ed. 



17. Dunlin. Tringa alpina. Tr. testaceo- Brisson av. v. SOQ. Hist. 



fusca, pectose nigricante, dJois. vii. 653. PI. Enl. 



rectricibus cinereo-albidis, 852. 



pedibus fuscentibus. Lath. Danis Domsneppe, Ryle. 



Jnd. orn. 736. id. Syn. v. Brunnich, 167, & 173. 



\%5. id. Sup.24:g. Kleinste Schnepfe, or Kleinste 



Wil. orn. 205. Sandloeuffer. Frisch, ii. 



Raii Syn. av. 109. 241. 



Tringa alpina. Gm. Lin. 249. Br. Zool. 126. tal.E. I. fg. 



Faun. Suec. sp.\8l. 2. Arct. Zool. i'l. 181. 

 La Beccassine d'Angleterre. 



Descrip- XHIS species is at once distinguished from 

 the others by the singularity of its colors. The 

 back, head, and upper part of the neck, are fer- 

 ruginous, marked with large black spots ; the 

 lower part of the neck white, marked with 

 short dusky streaks ; the coverts of the wings 

 ash color; the belly A^hite, marked with large 

 black spots, or with a black crescent pointing 

 towards the thighs; the tail ash colored, the 



TION. 



