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SANDPIPER. 



Place. Inhabits King George's Sound. In the collection of Sir Jofeph 



Banks. 



WOOD S. 



Description. 



Place. 



Tringa glareola, Faun. Suec. N° 1J4. 

 Wood Sandpiper, Ar3. Zool. p. 482. G. 



'IP HIS is faid to equal a Starling in fize. Back brown, dotted 

 with white : rump and belly white : quills brown; the fhaft 

 of the firft white : fecondaries white at the tips : tail banded 

 brown and white ; the outer feathers leaft brown in them. 

 Inhabits the moift woods of Sweden. 



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WHITE- WING- 

 ED S. 



Description. 



Place. 



Varieties. 



TRIFLE bigger than the Purre : length eight inches and a 

 half. Bill one inch, cinereous : irides dufky brown : over 

 the eye a pale ftreak : the head, hind part of the neck, back, and 

 wings, are brownifli black : lefler wing coverts dufky black: from 

 the bend of the wing an oblique ftreak pafles over the wing co- 

 verts ; the greater ones mixed ferruginous and black : quills 

 black, and reach almoft to the end of the tail : the throat, breaft, 

 belly, and rump, are rufous : vent dirty yellow : the two middle 

 tail feathers deep blackifh brown ; the others barred black and 

 rufous ; the outer feathers only on the exterior webs : legs dufky 

 green. 



This inhabits Otaheite, near the rivers, and is called Torowe. 

 Alfo met with at Eimeo, or York Ijle, and is there called Te-te. 



This bird varies. In one fpecimen which came under my view, 

 the crown of the head was dufky : the line over the eye ferrugi- 

 nous j and a tinge of the fame was vifible throughout the whole 

 of the plumage : bill and legs yellowifh. 



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