LECTURE VI. 237 



deep brown. It is recorded by Mr. Pennant that 

 a flock of these birds migrated into the marshes 

 near Yarmouth in the year 1774. In Holland 

 they were once considered as common birds, but 

 are now become more rare. In South-America is 

 a highly beautiful species, similar in size and ge- 

 neral appearance to the European Spoonbill, but 

 entirely of a bright rose-colour. South- America 

 also produces a very small species of this genuSj 

 which is said by LinnjEUS hardly to exceed the 

 size of a Sparrow, and is of a brown colour above, 

 and wiiite beneath. The birds of this genus are 

 observed to live in the manner of the Heron tribe, on 

 fish, reptiles and water insects, and they build 

 their nests on tall trees. 



The two genera of Tringa and Charadrius con- 

 tain all the birds of the Snipe and Plover tribe^ 

 and are very much allied to each other, but in the 

 genus called Tringa the feet are furnished with a 

 back toe, whereas in the genus Charadrius there is 

 none. Of the genus Tringa the T. Interpres or 

 Turnstone may serve as an example j and of the 

 genus Charadrius one of the most remarkable 

 species is the Ch. Himantopus or long-legged 

 Plover j one of the rarest of the British birds; 



