x65 SANDPIPER. 



8, A , „ Parra Senegalla, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 250. z. 



SENEGAL S. T . . „ - a \ I - r n t i /: 



Le Vanneau arme du Senegal, Brif. Orn. v. p. in. 6. pi, 10. fig. 2.— » 



Buf. Oif. viii. p. 62. — PL Enl. 362. 



Description. CIZE of the Lapwing : length twelve inches. Bill yellowifh. 

 green, with the tip black : the forehead covered with a yel- 

 low fkin, as in the Louijiane fpecies, but not raking in the eye : 

 the forehead is white : chin and throat black : the head and upper 

 parts of the neck, body, and lefler wing coverts, grey brown : the 

 under parts the fame, but paler: lower part of the belly, upper 

 and under tail coverts, dirty white : the greater wing coverts the 

 fame : quills black, more or lefs white at the bottom : at the 

 bend of the wing a black fpur: tail, half way from the bafe, 

 dirty white; the reft of the length black, with pale rufous tips. 

 Place. This fpecies inhabits Senegal. 



It was perhaps thefe that interrupted Mr. Adanfon , % fhooting, 

 as they alarmed all the birds within hearing by their cries. The 

 Negroes called them Uett Uett ; the French, Squatters ■, becaufe, 

 as foon as they fee a man, they fet up a loud fcreaming, on which 

 all other birds take the hint, and fly off. He fays that they 

 always fly in pairs, and have a fpur on each wing *. 



• See Fey. 8vo, p. 77. 



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