SANDPIPER. i 59 



Tongue flender. 



Toes divided, or very (lightly connected at the bafe by a mem- 

 brane : hind toe weak. 



Tringa pugnax, Lin. Sjjl. i. p. 147. i.—Faun. Sue:. iy^.—Seop. Ann. i. 



N° 140. — Brun. l68. 169. — Kram. p. 352. — Frifcb. t. 232. 235. — 4- RUFF. 



Georgi Rei/e, p. 1 7 2. 

 Le Combattanr, ou Paon de Mer, Brif. Orn. v. p. 240. 18. pi. 22. fig. i. 2. 



— Buf. Oif. vii. p. 521. pi. 29. 30. — PI. Enl. 305-. 306. 

 Ruffe, Rail Syn. p. 107. A. 3. — Will. Orn. p. 302. pi. 56. 

 Ruff and Reeve, Albin, i. pi. 72. 73. — Br. Zooi. N° 192.pl. 69. — Arft. Zod. 



p. 479. A. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



T ENGTH one foot. Bill more than one inch, yellowifh ; Description. 



in fome black : the whole face covered with numerous 

 yellow pimples : irides hazel : the back part of the head, and 

 the neck, are furnifbed with very long feathers, (landing out 

 in a remarkable manner, not unlike the ruff worn by our an- 

 ceftors ; a portion of this fet of feathers (lands up over each 

 eye, imitating ears : the ruff is of as many different colours 

 as there are birds who wear -it, no two being alike ; in general it 

 is barred with black, yet I have feen many white, or of one plain 

 colour; and I obferve, that of whatever colour the rajfmaybe, 

 the breaft is very little different; and the tranfverfe markings on 

 the upper parts of the plumage fomewhat correfpond : the ground 

 colour, however, is moftly. brown ; the feathers in general barred 

 with black, and many of them marked with concentric circles of 

 black : quills dufky : lower belly, vent, and upper tail coverts, 

 white; the lad pretty long : the four middle tail feathers barred 

 9 not 



