i85 SANDPIPER. 



34. Tringa Icelandica, Lin. Syft. i. Addend. 



R k£> s - Tringa ferruginea, Brun. N° 1S0 Muller, N° 205. 



Scolopax fubarquata, N. C. Petr. xix. p. 471, t. 18. 



Red Sandpiper, Br. Zool. ii. N° 202. pi. 72. — Ar8. Zool. N° 392. 



Aberdeen D°, Br. Zool. 203. 



Description. T ENGTH from eight to ten inches. Bill brown, one inch 

 and a half long, and a little bent downwards : head, hind 

 part of the neck, and beginning of the back, dufky, marked with 

 red : fore part of the neck and breaft cinereous, mixed with ruft- 

 colour, and obfcurely fpotted with black : lefler wing coverts ci- 

 nereous : quills dufky : fecondaries tipped with white: the two 

 middle tail feathers dufky j the others cinereous : legs long and 

 black. 



Linnaus likens his bird to the Woodcock on the upper part j and 

 fays, that the under parts are rufo- ferruginous : rump whitifh, un- 

 dulated with black : and that the (hafts of the quills and tail 

 feathers are white. The Aberdeen Sandpiper has the breaft reddifh 

 brown, mixed with dufky : belly and vent white : elfe little dif- 

 fering in defcription from the Red, of which it is fuppofed to be 

 the female, or a young bird. 

 Place and The Red Sandpiper has appeared in great flocks on the coafts 



Manners. f J7JJ} X} on t h e eftate of Col. Scbutz : the Aberdeen one in 



Scotland. They have alfo been met with on the coafts of New 

 York, Labrador, and Nootka Sound; and are alfo found in Ice- 

 land. In the fummer frequent the neighbourhood of the CaJ- 

 pian Sea; alfo the river Don; but particularly about the mouth 

 of the Choper. It is perpetually running up and down on the 

 fandy banks, picking up infects and fmall worms, on which 



t feeds. 



Lev. 



