SANDPIPER, 185 



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Tringa Alpina, Lin. Syj}. i. p. 429. 11. — Faun. Suec. N° j8i.— Brun. 



N° 167 ? 173. — Muller, lgj.— Fri/cL t. 241.— .FW«. Groenl. N° 77. DUNLIN. 



La Becaffine d'Angleterre, Brif. Om. v. p. 309. 5. 

 La Brunette, Bit/. Qif. vii. p. 493. 

 Dunlin, Rati Syn. p. 109. A. 12. — Will. Om. p. 305. — Br. Zool. ii. N° 205, 



—ArU. Zool. N° 391. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



CIZE of the Jack Snipe. Bill black, rather fwelling out at the Description. 



end: the upper parts of the plumage ferruginous, marked with 

 large fpots of black, and a little white : wing coverts browniih 

 afh-colour : throat, fore part of the neck, and breaft, white, 

 ftreaked with dufky : belly, thighs, and vent, white; the firffc 

 irregularly marked with black in the middle : the tail has the 

 two middle feathers brown, marked with rufous 5 the others very 

 pale brown : legs black : toes divided to their origin. 



This fpecies inhabits the northern parts of England : has been Place and 

 met with on the York/hire coaft, and on the fhores of Flintjhire, 

 both in May and Auguft *. Said to lay four dirty white eggs, 

 blotched with brown round the thicker end; with a few leffer 

 ones at the fmaller. It is alfo found in Greenland, Iceland, Scan- 

 dinavia, the alps of Sibiria ; and in its migration the coafts of 

 the Cafpian Sea. 



* Br. Zool. 



Manners. 



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