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ASH COLORED SANDPIPER. Cuiass II. 
6. Asu co- Tringa cinerea. Tr. nigro  Tringa cinerea. Brunnich, or- 
LORED. 
cinereo alboque lunato va- mith. 53. 
ria, pectore et abdomine al- Tr. cinerea. Gm. Lin. 673. _ 
bis, tectricibus caude albo Braun und Weissbunter Sand- 
nigroque fasciatis, rectrici- loeuffer? Frisch, ii. 237. 
bus margine albo. Lath. Br. Zool. 124. Arct. Zool. ii, 
Ind. orn. 733. id. Syn. v. 179. 
177. 
Descarr- THIS species weighs five ounces: the length 
TION. 
is ten inches; the breadth nimeteen; the head 
is of a brownish ash color, spotted with 
black: the whole neck ash color, marked with 
dusky oblong streaks ; the back and coverts of 
the wings elegantly varied with concentric 
semicircles of ash color, black and white ; the 
coverts of the tail barred with black and white ; 
the tail ash colored, edged with white ; the 
breast and belly of a pure white ; the legs of a 
greenish black; the toes bordered with a nar- 
row membrane finely scolloped.. 
These birds appear on. the shores of Flint- 
shire, in the winter time, in large flocks. ‘ 
