176 SANDPIPER. 



21. Tringa ftriata, Lin. Syft. i. p. 248. 5, — Midler, N° 194. — Faun. Groenl. 



STRIATED S. N° 73. 



Le Chevalier raye, Brif. Orn. V. p. 196. 5. pi. i3. fig. 1. — Buf. Oif. vii. 



p. 516.— PI. Enl. S27. 

 Striated Sandpiper, Aril. Zool. N° 383. 



Dsscription. QIZE of a Starling: length ten inches and three quarters. Bill 

 one inch and a half long; the bafe half red, the end black : the 

 upper part of the body undulated with dufky and cinereous : fore 

 part of the neck dufky : breafl: and belly white : primaries and 

 fecondaries black, the laft tipped with white : tertials white, with 

 a (tripe of black : tail black : the feathers on the fide cinereous, 

 edged with white : legs orange. 



Linn<eus fays, the rump and tail are white ; the lad fafciated with 

 brown : and that the under parts are white, marked with both 

 longitudinal and tranfverfe ftripes : poffibly this may differ in fex, 

 if the fame bird. 

 Place and This inhabits the colder parts of Europe; being found in Sweden 



Manners. an j Norway. Is found, but lefs frequent, in RuJJia and Sibi- 

 ria, though it is met with even in Iceland and Greenland : in the 

 laft place the winter throughout; running backwards and forwards 

 on the fhore, according as the waves approach or recede, feeding 

 on fuch infects as are left on the beach. Often fkims along the 

 furface of the water, like a Swallow, catching infects ; rifing and 

 falljng with the waves, but ever avoiding coming in contact with 

 them. In breeding-time retires within fhore, and lays from four 

 to fix eggs, a little bigger than thofe of the Starling, marked 

 with pale obfeure fpots. Twitters like the Swallow. Is not a very 



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