l7 o SANDPIPER, 



CRFFN 9 Tringa ochropus, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 250. l^.—Faitn, Suec. 180. — Muller* 



p. 25. — Brun. N° 183. — Fri/cb. ii. 239. 

 Le Beccaffeau, ou Cul blanc, Brif. Qrn. v. p. 177. I. pi. 16. fig. 1. — Biif. 



Oif. vii. p. 534. — PL Enl. 843. 

 Tringa of Aldrovand, Raii Syn. p. 108. A. 7. — Will. Qrn. p. 300. pi. 56,. 



(Cinclus Bellonii.) 

 Tringa tertia Aldrov. Raii Syn. p. 109. 8. — Will. Qrn. 301. pi. 56.. 

 Green Sandpiper, Br. Zool. N° 201.— Ar8. Zeal. N° 389, 



Lev. Mu/l 



Description. F ENGTH ten inches. Bill one inch and a half long, black: 

 top of the head and hind part of the neck dufky afh-colour : 

 over the eye a pale ftreak ; and between the bill and eye dufky : 

 back and wings greenifh glolTy brown ; the edges of the feathers 

 fpotted with dirty white : chin white : fore part of the neclc 

 dufky white, marked with dark ftreaks : from thence to the vent 

 white; as are the upper and lower tail coverts: quills and outer 

 edge of the wing plain dufky brown : fecondaries nearly as long 

 as the quills : under the wings dufky, the feathers barred with 

 white, the bars meeting obliquely, and forming the fhape of the 

 letter V : the tail is white, the feathers more or lefs barred with 

 dufky ; the outer one leaft of all : the legs are of a greenifh lead- 

 colour, flender : the outer and middle toes united at the bafe by 

 a membrane. 

 Place. This bird is common to many parts of Europe, and is for 



the mod part a folitary fpecies. It frequents frefh waters and 

 ftreams. Is very plenty in the watery places of Rujfia and Sibi~ 

 ria\ and is found as far as Iceland. It is alfo in England, though: 

 rather fcarce ; and I am not clear that it is feen, except in the 

 winter feafon, having never heard of the circumftance : nor is it 

 7 ever 



