174 



SANDPIPER. 



18. 



DUSKY S, 



Trlnga calidris, Lin. Syft. i. p. 252. 19. 



La Manbeche, Brif. Orn. v. p. 226. 14. pi. 20. Rg. i.—Bvf. Oif, vii. 

 p. 5 zg. pi. 31. 



Description. O I Z E of the Redjhank : length nine inches and a quarter. Bill 

 one inch and a half, and black, with the bafe pale : the 

 plumage on the upper parts is brownifh black, the feathers mar- 

 gined with pale chefnut : the rump cinereous brown, tranfverfely 

 ftreaked with black, the margins of the feathers white : the under 

 parts of the body chefnut*: fides tranfverfely ftreaked with pale 

 chefnut and white : tail greyilh brown ; all except the two mid- 

 dle feathers margined with white : legs brown : the outer and 

 middle toe united to the firft joint. 

 p L ^ OEo This fpecies is fpoken of by authors as a bird of both France 



and Germany; but is not, as we hear of, in England. It frequents 

 the fea ihores, picking up the food there : further than this the 

 manners are unknown. We have feen one quite correfponding 

 with the above defcription, except that the under parts were 

 white : this came from Gibraltar. 



19. 



FRECKLED S. 



Description. 



La Manbeche tachetee, Brif. Orn. v. p. 229. 15. pi. 21. fig. 1. — Buf. Oif. 



vii. p. 531. — PL Enl. 365. 

 Freckled Sandpiper, Aril. Zool. p. 480. B. 



A TRIFLE lefs than the Redjhank: length nine inches. Bill 



dufky : the upper parts of the body afh-colour, fpotted 



with red and black ; the laft glofled with violet : beneath reddifh 



* Linnaus calls it olive. 



white. 



