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white : rump white : tail barred black and white * : legs dirty 

 green : back toe fmall. 



This is now and then feen on the coafls of England, in the winter Place,' 



time, in fmall flocks. Found in Carolina in great numbers. Alfo 

 common in Sibiria ; appearing there in autumn in great flocks, 

 coming from the extreme north, where they breed f. 



Tringa raria, Lin Syfl. i. p. 252. 21. u 



Le Vanncau varie, Brif. Orn. v. p. 103. 3. pi. 9. fig. 2. — PI. Eul. 923. 



Var. A. 



CIZE of the laft. Bill black: the head, hind part of the neck, Description. 



back, and fcapulars, are brown ■, the feathers fpotted and 

 margined with white : rump the fame, but the fpots are yellow- 

 ifli : upper tail coverts white, edged with grey and pale yellow : 

 throat white : fore part of the neck grey brown ; margins of the 

 feathers white : from thence to the vent white : the wing coverts 

 like the back; fome of the outer greater ones dufky, margined 

 at the ends with white : baftard wing dufky : quills the fame j 

 from the fifth to the ninth edged with white at the tips ; the 

 others incline to grey brown, edged outwardly with white ; the 

 fix inner ones fpotted on the margins with white : the tail feathers 

 barred with brown and white ; the outer one all white, except a 

 brown longitudinal ftreak on the outer web : legs black. 



* Linnaus obferves, that the outer feather has but one black bar, the others 

 feveral. 



t Ara. Zool. 



Vol. III. 



Tringa 



