SANDPIPER. 



&y bird : often caught in fnares ; and the flefli is accounted good 

 food. The feathers ufed for fluffing, like other feathers* 



Le Chevalier tachete, Brif, Orn. v. p. 200, 6. 



17? 



2 if 

 Var. A. 



^pH I S is fmaller than the laft« The upper parts of the head, Description 



neck, and back, are blackifh, margined with rufous grey : 

 fcapulars the fame, but barred with grey On the fides : lower part 

 of the back and rump white : fore part, as far as the bread, mixed 

 black and white ; verging to rufous on the fides i breaft and 

 belly white, marked with minute black fpots : lower belly plain 

 white : wing coverts grey brown $ fome of them croffed at the 

 end with rufous grey and black : quills dufky, within hoary 5 

 fhaft of the firft white : upper and under tail coverts, the fides* 

 and tail, barred black and white. This feems much allied to the 

 laft, though varying fomewhat in defcriptioni BHJfon's two fi- 

 gures feem to differ not fufficiently to form two diftinet fpe«= 

 cies. 



Tringa cinerea, Brun. N° 179-^— Muller, N° 202.^— Fri/cbi, t. 237. 

 Afh-coloured Sandpiper* Br- Zeol. ii; p. lg^.-^-ArS. Zool. N° 386. 



T ENGTH ten inches : weight five ounces. The head is afh- 

 colour, fpotted with black : neck the fame, marked with 

 dufky ftreaks : back and wing coverts finely varied with concen- 

 tric femicircles of black, afh-coloUr, and white : coverts of the 

 tail barred black and white : tail cinereous, edged with white : 

 breaft and belly white 3 the firft fpotted with black : legs dufky 

 green : toes bordered with a narrow finely-fcolloped membrane. 

 Vol. III. A a This 



. 22. 

 ASH-COLOUR* 

 ED S. 



Descriptions 



