SANDPIPER. ifij 



Iceland ; and on the continent. Change place according to the 

 feafon ; being met with in the winter in Perjia and Egypt. We 

 have alfo feen a fpecimen from China. The chief food of the 

 bird in its wild date is worms, which it draws out of the ground 

 morning and evening. It is frequently kept in gardens, of which 

 it is a ufeful inhabitant, freeing them from worms and Jlugs, and 

 in time becoming tolerably familiar. I have feen this bird ap- 

 proach a worm caft, turn it afide, and after making two or three 

 turns about, by way of giving motion to the ground, the worm 

 came out, and the watchful bird feizing hold of it drew it 

 forth. During frofty and hard weather, this pretty gardener will 

 feed on bits of pudding, meat, and fuch like; but ever forfaking 

 thefe when worms can be had, its molt efteemed food. 



Le grand Vanneau de Bologne, Brif. Orn. v. p. 1 10. 5. 3. 



GREATER LAP- 

 WING. 



Description. 



IGGER than a Lapwing. Bill yellowifh, with the tip black 

 head and hind part of the neck chefnut : back, wings, fca 

 pulars, and rump, black : throat, fore part of the neck, and 

 breaft, white, marked with ferruginous fpots : belly, fides, and 

 thighs, white: quills and tail black: legs the colour of yellow 

 oker. 



Inhabits Italy, about Bologna, where it is called Ginocchiella. Place. 



Tringa erythropus, Scop. Ann. i. 146. 4. 



RED-LEGGED 

 IGGER than the Ruff. Bill black : forehead rufous white: SANDPIPER, 

 the upper parts of the body and wings cinereous brown : the Description. 

 fecond quills white; the firft feven prime ones black: belly foot- 



Y 2 colour : 



