Cuassll. RUFF SANDPIPER. 
end, base yellow; irides light hazel; head and 
neck cinereous, streaked with dusky ; the up- 
per parts of the body cinereous brown; the 
middle of each feather dusky ; wing coverts the 
same; beneath the spurious wing a small patch 
of white; primary quil feathers dusky, the first 
with a white shaft; secondaries white half way 
from their tips; the under parts white; rump 
the same; the tail and its upper coverts cinere- 
ous brown; under tail coverts speckled with | 
dusky ; legs orange yellow.” Ep. 
Tringa pugnax. Tr.rostrope- Brushane. Faun. Suec. sp. 
dibusque rufis, rectricibus 175. 
tribus lateralibus immacula- Le Combattant, ou Paon de 
tis, facie papillis granulatis mer. Brisson av. v. 240. 
carneis. Lath. Ind. orn. tab. 22. Hist. dois. vii. 521. 
725. id. Syn. v. 159. Pl. Enl. 305, 306. 
Avis pugnax. Aldr. av. iii. Danis Bruushane. Brunnich, 
167. 168. 
Wil. orn. 302. Streitschnepfe, Rampfhehn- 
Raii Syn. av. 107. lein. Frisch, ii. 232, 235. 
Krossler. Kram. 352 Scopoli, No. 140. 
Tringa pugnax. Gm. Lin. Br. Zool. 123. Arct. Zool. ii, 
669. 185. ; 
Tue males, or Ruffs, assume such a variety 
of colors in several parts of their plumage, that 
it is scarcely possible to see two alike ; but the 
great length of the feathers on the neck, which 
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