iSS SANDPIPER. 



crolTed with dufky lines : ridge of the wing white : legs blueifh 

 alh-colour. 



Thefe birds vary. That in the Britijh Zoology has the fore- 

 head, chin, and fore part of the neck, cinereous brown : back 

 and fcapulars brown; the feathers margined with afh-colour : 

 tail afh-colour; the outer feather on each fide white: toes di- 

 vided to the bottom. We have alfo feen other inconfiderable 

 varieties. 

 Place and Theft birds frequent the coafts of LincolnJIoire in great num- 



bers, and are caught in nets by means of Stale Birds ; fourteen 

 dozen have thus been taken at once * : the feafon, from Augufl 

 to November. In general difappear with the flrft frofts ; yet 

 Edwards's, bird was bought in the London markets in the hard 

 froft 1740, which did not commence till Chriflmas 1759. Are 

 fatted as the Ruffs, and are by fome even preferred to thofe 

 birds f. 



This fpecies has alfo been obferved about Lake Baikal ; and 

 Mr. Pennant mentions a fpecimen which came from New York. 



37. Trinsra interpres, Lin. Syft. i. p. 248. 4. — Faun. Suet. N° 178. — Brun. 



TURNSTONE. ^° i^.-Muller, N° 193". 



Le Coulon-chaud, Brif. Orn. v. p. 132. 1. — PI. Enl. 856. 



Le Tourne-pierre, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 130. pi. to. 



Turnltone, or Sea Dotterel, Rail Sjn, p. 112. A. 5. — Will. Orn. p. 311. 



pi. 58. (bad figure). — Ediv. pi. 141. 

 Hebridal Sandpiper, Br. Zoal. ii. N° 200.— i-7or. Scot, N° 15Z. pi. 3. — 

 ArB. ZqoI. N° 382. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. QIZE of a Thrujh : length eight inches and a quarter. Bill 

 nearly one inch; colour black, and turns a trifle upwards : 



* Br. ZcoL -J- They were fatted with bread and milk. Willugbby. 



foreheadj 



