1 8-2 SANDPIPER, 



, 0# Tringa cincius, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 251. 18. — Georgi Rei/e, p. I72. 



PURRE. L'Alouette de Mer, Brif. Orn. v. p. 21 1. 10. pi. 19. fig. 1. — Buf. Oif. viL 



p. 548.— PL Enl, 851. 

 Stint, or Ox Eye, Rail Syn. p. no. A. 13. — Will. Orn. p. 305. 

 Leaft Snipe, RaiiSyn.'p. 190. II. — Sloan Jam. p. 320. I4.pl. 265.4. 

 Wagtail, Kolb. Cape, ii. p. 152 ? — Brown Jam. p. 477. 

 Sanderling, Albin, iii. pi. 88. 



Purre, Br. Zool. N° 2c6. pi. 71. — Arli. Zool. p. 390. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description, ENGTH feven inches and a half. Bill one inch and a quar- 



ter, black : the head and hind part of the neck are pale afh- 

 colour, ftreaked with dufky : from bill to eye a white line: back 

 and wing coverts brownifh afh-colour; greater coverts darker, 

 tipped with white : fore part of the neck, breaft, and belly, 

 white; the firft mixed with brown: tail cinereous; the two 

 middle feathers darken;, the others edged with white : legs dufky 



green. 



Piace and This fpecies is common to moft parts of Europe; and, if the 



Manners. D ; rc j meant by Kolben, at the Cape of Good Hope : is alfo common 

 in America, at New York ; from thence as far as Jamaica, and 

 other Weft India IJlands, and Cayenne. It only frequents thefe 

 kingdoms in winter; when they may be feen on the coafts in vail 

 flocks, flying in large circles, alternately taking in the water and 

 land : are fhot fometimes in great numbers, and thought very 

 good to eat. Formerly known by the name of Stints ; in fome 

 parts called Ox-birds. I have much fufpicion that thefe breed on 

 the coafts of Kent, as I had fome birds fent to me by Mr. Boys of 

 Sandwich, fhot at Romney in the month of Auguft, which fcarcely 



differed 



