SANDPIPER. , 7 i 



■ever met with in greater numbers than four or five together. Is 

 found alfo in America. This has a murky kind of fmell, not un- 

 like fome of the Petrel genus. 



Tringa littorea, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 251. N° 17. — Faun. Suee. N° 1S5. — Brim. 12. 



N° 177. i 7 8.—Mu/kr, N° 200. Var ' A - 



Le Chevalier cendre, Brif. Orn, v. p. 203. 7. pi. 17. fig. 2. 

 ■ — varie, Buf. Qif. vii. p. 517. — PI. Enl. 300. 



Mr. Oldham's white Heron, Albin, iii. pi. 83. 

 Shore Sandpiper, ArcJ. Zool. p. 481. F. 



HP HIS differs not materially from the other. The fpots on the Description. 

 back are ferruginous inflead of white : the fhaft of the firffc 



O 



quill is white, as in that bird ; and the fecondaries have white 

 tips: the legs are brown. 



This bird is faid to migrate from Sweden into England at the Place, 1 



approach of winter*. 



Brunnkh mentions a further variety, wherein the firft quill has 

 a black fhaft, and the fpots on the back and wings lefs : and ob- 

 ferves, that they differ in age and fex. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill one inch and a quarter long, and tT ,2 * 



11-1 r 1 ^ AR * B * 



black: head and hind part of the neck pale afh-colour: ~ 



Description. 

 through the eye a dufky flreak : forehead white : over the eye a 



line of the fame : back and wings cinereous, marked with whitifh 



fpots, not very confpicuous : fides of the head, and under parts, 



-dirty white ; acrofs the breaft verging to afh-colour : quills 



dufky : tail the fame ; all but the two middle feathers barred with 



white on the outer webs : legs dufky green. 



* Ameen. Acad. iv. p. 590. 



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