SANDPIPER. 



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Tringa gambetta, Lin. Syft. i. p. 248. 3. — Faun. Suec. i-jj.— Scop. 



Ann. i. 142. 

 Tringa variegata, Brim. N° 181.— -Muller,~N° 204. 

 Le Chevalier rouge, Brif. Orn. v. p. 192. 4. 

 La Gambette, PL Enl. 845. 



Gambetta, Raii Syn. p. 107. 2. — Will. Orn. p. 300. 

 Red-legged Horfeman, Albin, ii. pi. 63. 

 Gambet, Br. Zool. N° 198. pi. jo.—Artf. Zoo/. N° 394. 



CIZE of the Greenjhank : length twelve inches. Bill of a reddifh. 

 colour, with a black tip : the irides yellowifh green : head, 

 back, and bread, cinereous brown, fpotted with dull yellow : 

 wing coverts and fcapulars cinereous, edged with dull yellow : 

 prime quills dufky ; fhaft of the firft white: tail dufky, bordered 

 with yellow : legs yellow. 



This inhabits England, but is not common : has been (hot on 

 the coaft of Lincoln/hire. Known in France; but is there a rare 

 bird. Has a note not unlike the whittle of a Woodcock -, and the 

 flefh is efteemed. Inhabits Scandinavia and Iceland ; called in 

 the laft Stelkr. It has alfo been taken in the Frozen Sea, between 

 Afia and America. 



GAMBET S. 



Description. 



Place and 

 Manners. 



Tringa Helvetica, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 250. 12. — Phil. <Tranf. vol. Ixii. p. 412. 



Vanneau de Suifle, Brif. Orn. v. p. 106. 4. pi. 10. fig. 1. — Buf. Oif. viii. SWISS S. 



p. 60.— PI. Enl. 853. 

 Swifs Sandpiper, Arii. Zool. N° 396. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



CIZE of the Lapwing: length eleven inches. Bill one inch Description. 



and a quarter, and black, fwelling at the point : forehead 

 and neck white ; the feathers of the laft dafhed with brown down 



the 



