i6S ■ SANDPIPER. 



the (hafts: hind part of the head fpotted with black and white: 

 cheeks, fore part of the neck, breaft, and belly, black : thighs 

 and vent white: back and wing coverts white, fpotted with 

 black : prime quills black : tail white, crofted with narrow 

 bars of black, which are leaft in number on the outer fea- 

 thers: legs black : hind toe fmall. The bird defcribed in the 

 Philosophical Tranfaclions had a mixture of white lunated fpots 

 with the black on the under parts ; which Dr. Forjler fufpects 

 may prove the young bird. 

 Place. This fpecies inhabits the coafts of ConnecJicut and Hudfon's 



Bay : vifits the laft in fpring ; and feeds on berries, infects, and 

 worms. Common throughout the fouth of Ruffia, and Sibiria : 

 fuppofed to breed in the arctic flats of the laft. It is alfo found 

 in France and Switzerland ; but never many of them together. 



II. Tringa fquatarola, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 252. 23. — Faun. Suec J 86. — Scop. Ann. i. 



GREY S. N° 144. — Brun. N° 176. — Muller, p. 25. — Georgi Bei/e, p. 172. 



Le Vanneau gris, Brif. Orn. v. p. 100. 2. pi. 9. fig. 1. — PI, Enl. 854. 



Le Vanneau pluvier, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 68. 



Grey Plover, Rati Syn. p. m. A. 3. — Will. Orn. p. 309. pi. 57. — Brown 



Jam. p. 478. — Albin, i. pi. 76. 

 Grey Sandpiper, Br. Zool. N° 191. — Arcl. Zool. N° 393. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. ClZE of the Golden Plover: weight feven ounces: length 

 twelve inches. Bill one inch and a quarter in length, black : 

 the head, back, and wing coverts, black, edged with greeniih afh- 

 colour, with fome white : cheeks and throat white, marked with 

 oblong dufky fpots : belly and thighs white: outer webs of the 

 quills black i the lower part of the inner webs of the four firft 



white : 



