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but none are feen late in autumn. They breed with us, and the 

 eggs are five in number ; the female lays them in fome conveni- 

 ent hole in the bank of the river which fhe frequents : the colour 

 of them dirty yellowifh white, with numerous dufky markings, 

 moftly round ; and a few large ones of a paler colour, moft at 

 the large end. The bird is known at fome diftance by its piping 

 note, which it frequently emits, and often flirts up its tail. 



It is frequently met with alfo in France, into which it comes 

 in May, and departs in September. It is alio found in the northern 

 latitudes of Sibiria, as far as Kamtfchatka ; and is alfo not uncom- 

 mon in America, inhabiting Chateaux Bay to the north. The 

 American fpecies differs very little, except in the colour of the 

 legs, which are yellowifh. 



One of thefe, which came under my infpection from Cayenne, 

 had fewer fpots on the back : a white bar acrofs the wings : 

 quills and tail brown : beneath wholly white, except here and 

 there a little dufky mottling on the breafl: the legs very pale. 



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Tringa macularia, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 249. 7. 



La Grive d'Eau, Brif. Orn. v. N° 20.—Buf. Oif. viii. p. 140. 4. SPOTTED S. 



Spotted Tringa, Ed°w. pi. 277. fig. 2. 



Spotted Sandpiper, Br. Zosl. ii. N° ig6.—Jrfi. Zoo!. N° 385. 



Lev. Miif. 



T ENGTH near eight inches : fize of a Thrufh. Bill dufky, Description. 



towards the bafe reddifh : over the eye a white ftreak : the 

 upper parts of the bird greenifh brown : head marked with fmall 

 longifh dufky fpots : thefe increafe on the neck to the back, 

 where they are much larger : the rump plain: the moulders and 

 wings marked with the fame colour; but the fpots are tranfverfe : 



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