SANDPIPER. 1 8. 9 



forehead, throat, and belly, white : breaft black : neck furround- 

 ed with a black collar ; from thence another bounds the fides of 

 the neck, and paries over the forehead : head and lower part of the 

 neck behind white ; the firft ftreaked with dufky lines : back fer- 

 ruginous mixed with black: coverts of the tail white, crofled with 

 a black bar: tail black; tipped with white: coverts of the wings 

 cinereous brown ; the lower order edged with white : primaries 

 and fecondaries black; the ends of the lafc white : tertials ferru- 

 ginous and black : legs rather fhort, and of a full orange. 



Male and female much alike. 



In Edwards's bird the lower part of the back and rump are 

 white. In that defcribed by Willughby no mention is made of 

 any white on the forehead or chin ; and' the middle of the back 

 is white : yet in other things it fcarcely differs. 



Thefe birds appear in flocks on the weftern fhores of England, Place and 



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about Penzance and Cornwall, and Aberdaren in Merioneth/hire, 

 three or four in company ; alfo frequent on the fhores of Norfolk, 

 and in Sbropfhire. Are met with likewife in America. Appears in 

 Hudfon's Bay in May, and departs in September. Makes a flight 

 neff, on the dry ground, and lays four olive-coloured eggs, fpotted 

 with black, and hatches early. The young feen the middle of 

 July. The natives call it Gega-zvafhue. 



The name ofTurnJlone has arifen from the method of fearching 

 for infects, by turning up the ftones they lurk under with their 

 bills, which are ftout for that purpofe, 



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