SANDPIPER. xSj 



differed from the defcription, except in having the margins of the 

 feathers on the upper parts of a pale ferruginous colour, 



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L'Alouette de Mer a collier, Brif. Om. v. p. 216. 11. pi. 19. fig. 2. 

 Le Cincle, Buf.Oif. vii. p. 553.— P/. Enl. 853. Var, A. 



Lev. Muf. 



ESS than the Purre : length fix inches and three quarters. Description. 

 Bill black : on the upper parts of the head, neck, and body, 

 the feathers are dufky or black in the middle, with pale rufous 

 or whitifh margins : throat and fore part of the neck white, mi- 

 nutely dafhed with brown down the fhafts : breaft and fides 

 brown, edged with white: the reft of the under parts white: 

 the wing coverts are grey brown, dafhed down the fhafts with a 

 deeper colour, the edges pale ; fome of the greater ones white at 

 the tips: the quills brown; the nine firft have the end half of 

 the fhafts white; the others more or lefs edged with white : the 

 tail feathers are grey ; the two middle ones brown on the inner 

 webs; the others white within, and have the fhafts white : the 

 legs are brown. 



This bird has much affinity with the Purre, and is often found 

 in company with that bird : probably a fexual difference, or thai 

 of age. 



Tringa ruficollis, Pall. Tr. iii. p. 700. , Jt 



RED-NECKED 

 C I Z E of the Purre. The bill is fhorter than the head : the P. S. 



crown and hind part of the neck ftriated ferruginous and Description. 

 black: fore part of the neck, as far as the breaft, deep ferrugi- 



nous : the reft not unlike the Purre : legs black. 



This 



