94 PURRE SANDPIPER. Class II. 



belly white; the tail cinereous; the legs 

 black.* 



Bought in the London market. 



ig. PuRRE. Tringa Cinclus. Tr. rostro The Stint. Wil. orn. 305. 



pedibusque nigrls, loris al- Stint, in Sussex the Ox-eye. 



bis corpore uropygioque gri- Rail Syn. av. 1 10. 



seis fuscisque. Lath. Ind. N. Com. Petr. iv. 428. 



orn. 735. id. Syn. \. 182. Cinclus. L'Allouette de Mer. 



L'AllouettedeMer. Belonav. Brisson av. \. 211. tab. \g. 



213. fig' 1- Hist. d!ois.\i\. b^S. 



Cinclus sive Motacilla Mari- PL Enl.85l. 



tima, Lyssklicker. Gesner Tringa cinclus. Gm. Lin. 251. 



av. 6l6. Br. Zool. 126. Arct. Zool. ii. 



Giarolo. Aldr. av. iii. 188. 181. 



Descrip- XHIS bird weighs about an ounce and a 

 half: the length is seven inches and a half; 

 the extent fourteen inches. The head and 

 hind part of the neck are ash colored, marked 

 with dusky lines; a white stroke divides the 

 bill and eyes; the chin white; the underside 

 of the neck mottled with brown ; the back 

 is of a brownish ash color ; the breast and 

 belly white ; the coverts of the wings and tail 

 a dark brown, edged with light ash color or 



TION. 



* Mr. Montagu entertains doubts with respect to this bird be- 

 ing a distinct species, and observes that a young Dunlin killed in 

 July, exactly corresponds with the above, except that the head 

 and back of the neck are of a ferruginous brown. 



