SANDPIPER, 



187 



Lev. Maf. 



ENGTH eleven inches. Bill one inch and a half long, and 

 black: crown of the head ftreaked with brown: the upper 

 part of the neck, back, and wings, afh-colour, mottled with 

 brown, and fparingly lpotted with buff-colour, moft nume- 

 rous on the fcapulars : throat, fore part of the neck, and breaft, 

 pale rufous : belly dirty white : rump the fame, crofTed with 

 dufky bars: quills and tail dufky; the laft paleft : the upper tail 

 coverts very long, almofl reaching to the end of the tail : legs 

 black. 



Inhabits Cayenne. 



35- 



SOUTHERN S, 



Description. 



Place. 



Tringa canutus, Lin.Syft. i. p. 251. 15. — Faun.Suec. 183. — Brun. N° 182. 



Le Canut, Br!/. Orn. v. p. 258. 21. — Buf. Oif. viii. p. 142. 



The Knot, Raii Sjn. p. 108. A. 5. — Will. Orn. p. 302. pi. 56. — Edw. 



pi. 276. — Br. Zool. ii. N° 193. — Flor. Scot. p. 34. pi. ^.—ArSl. Zool. 



N° 384. 



Lev. Muf. 



"\X7"EIGHT four ounces and a half: length nine inches, or 

 more. Bill one inch and a quarter; colour dufky afh : 

 irides hazel : from the bill to the eye a duiky line ; over the eye 

 a white one : the top of the head, neck, back, and wings, afh- 

 colour: lower order of coverts tipped with white, and edged a 

 little way up with the fame, making a bar acrofs the wing : 

 greater quills darker, with white fhafts : lower part of the back 

 and tail coverts dark afh-colour, mixed with white, forming 

 fpots like crefcents : tail afh-coloured : the under part, from the 

 throat to the vent, white, with fmall dufky fpots on the throat and 

 breaft : the fides under the wings, the belly, thighs, and vent, 



B b 2 crofTed 



36. 

 KNOT. 



Description, 



