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SANDPIPER. 



Female. 



Place and 

 Manners. 



the under fide of the body is white, marked with duflcy fpots : 

 the two middle tail feathers greenifh brown ; the others white, 

 croiTed with dufky lines : legs dufky flefh-colour. 



The female differs in not having the under parts of the body 

 fpotted. 



This fpecies inhabits America, from Penfylvania to Hudfon's 

 Bay, where it arrives in May ; and afcer breeding there, departs 

 again in September. Is known there by the name of Chechifha- 

 Jbijh. It has alfo been met with in England; the bird from 

 whence Mr. Edwards took his figure and defcription being fhoc 

 in Effex. 



2;. 

 NEW YORK S. 



Description. 



Place. 



New York Sandpiper, Ara. Zool. N° 387. 



'T'HE leffer wing coverts are dufky, edged with white : the 

 back dufky ; the edges of the feathers cinereous : fecondaries 

 the fame : tail coverts barred black and white : under fide of the 

 neck and body white : the breaft fpotted with brown : fides be- 

 neath the wings flreaked with the fame : tail cinereous. 

 Inhabits the province of New York, 



26. 



STREAKED S. 



Description. 



Place. 



OIZE of the common Snipe. Bill one inch and a quarter long, 

 dufky : head and neck white, marked with numerous longi- 

 tudinal dufky ftreaks : back dufky, the feathers edged with white t 

 fcapulars dufky, margined and mottled with ferruginous : lower 

 part of the back and tail dufky afh-colour : wing coverts afh-colour 1 

 quills dufky : upper tail coverts, and all the under parts, white : 

 fides fpotted with dufky : legs dufky, with a tinge of yellow. 

 Inhabits Sandwich Sound. 



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