17S 



SANDPIPER, 



Place. This fpecies is feen on the fhores of Flintjhire, in the winter 



time, in vaft flocks. Suppofed to breed in Denmark. It alfo in- 

 habits America. Seen in great numbers on Seal I/lands, near Cha- 

 teaux Bay. Breeds at Hudfon's Bay, continuing the whole furrt- 

 and is there, called Safqua pi/qua nifiifo. 



mer* -, 



23- 

 *- COMMON S. 



Tringa hypoleucos, Lin. Sjjl. i. p. 250. 14. — Faun. Suec. 182. — Scop. 



Aim. i. N° 143. — Brun. N° 174. — Muller, p. 25. — Kram. El. p. 353. 

 La Guignette, Brif. Orn. v. p. 1S3. 2. pi. 16. fig. 2. — Buf. Oif. vii. p. 540. 

 Petite Alouette de Mer, PI. Enl. 850. 

 Sandpiper, Raii Syn. p. 108. A. 6. — Will. Orn. p. 301. pi. 55. — Br>. 



Zool. ii. N° 204. pi. 71.— Am. Zool. N° 388. 

 Br. Ma/. Lev. Muf. 



Description. 



PlACE AND 



Manners. 



CIZE of the Purre : length feven inches and a half: weight 

 two ounces. Bill brown : irides hazel : the plumage on the 

 upper parts very glofly : the head brown, ftreaked with black : 

 over each eye a white ftreak : neck dull afh-colour : back and 

 wings greenifh brown, crofled with dufky narrow lines : the breaft 

 and under parts white : quills brown ; the firft plain ; on the nine 

 following a white fpot on the inner web : tail rounded, of a 

 greenifh glofly brown ; the four middle feathers crofled with fine 

 blackifh lines ■, the two next on each fide the fame, with the tips 

 white ; the lafl: but one fpotted white on the edges; and the outesr 

 one white, marked on the inner web with brown bars : legs 

 greenifh brown f. 



This fpecies is not uncommon with us in the fummer feafon, 



• Am. Zool. 



t Scopoli adds, that the toes are femipalmated. 



but 



