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SANDPIPER. 



colour: rump and tail rufous white, the laft crofled with a black 

 band at the tip : the thighs naked for the greateft part of their 

 length : legs red. 



Native place uncertain. 



CAYENNE S. 

 Description. 



Place. 



Le Vanneau arme de Cayenne, Buf. Oif vili. p. 66. — PL Enl. 836. 

 Vanneau, Defer. Surin. ii. p. 193. 



ESS than our Lapwing : length eight inches and a half. The 

 bill is red, three quarters of an inch long, with the tip black: 

 the forehead and throat are black : the middle of the crown afh- 

 colour : hind head brown ; from it fpring five or fix blackifli 

 long feathers, forming a creft not unlike that of the Lapwing : the 

 neck is dufky white : on the breaft a broad band of black : belly 

 and vent white : the back of a greenifh purple : the outfide of 

 the wing, for fome way from the fhouider, white ; near the bend 

 a fhort, brown, fharp fpur, rather bent : the bafe half of the tail 

 is white j the end half black; the tip fringed with white: legs 

 reddifh : toes of moderate length : claws black. 



Inhabits Cayenne. Met with commonly in the maxftiyjav annas, 

 and lives on infects. 



6. 

 LOUISIANE S. 



Description, 



Le Vanneau arme de la Louifiaue, Brif. Orn. v. p. 114. 7. pi. 8. fig. 2.— 



Buf. Oif vii. p. 65.— PI. Enl. 835. 

 Armed Sandpiper, Aril. Zool. N° 395. 



C I Z E of the Lapwing : length eleven inches. Bill orange; at 



the bafe of it a naked fkin of the fame colour, which rifes up 



on the forehead, takes in the eyes, and hangs on each fide of the 



mandible like a wattle: the top of the head is black : the reft of 



the 



