GAMBET SANDPIPER. Cuass IE. 
10. GamBeT. Tringa Gambetta. Tr. rostro  Raii Syn. av. 117. 
Descrip- 
TION. 
pedibusque rubris, corpore  Aldr. av. 
luteo cinereoque variegato, Totanus ruber. Brisson, v. 
subtus albo. Lath. Ind. orn. 192. Pl. Enl. 845. Scopolt, 
728. id. Syn.v. 167. No. 142. 
Tringa Gambetta. Gm. Lin. Tringa variegata. Brunnich, 
248. Faun. Suec. No. 177. No. £81. 
Gambetta. Wal. orn. 300. Arct. Zool. ii. 183. 
Tuts species is of the size of the green- 
shank: the head, back, and breast, cinereous 
brown, spotted with dull yellow ; the coverts of 
the wings, scapulars, cinereous, edged with yel- 
low ; the primaries dusky; the shaft of the first 
feather white; belly white; tail dusky, border- 
ed with yellow; legs yellow. 
It has been shot on the coast of Lincoln- 
shire. 3 
[It has also been found in Sussex, Hamp- 
shire, Caermarthenshire, and other maritime 
counties, but is said not to appear far inland. 
Is migratory, and observed here only in the 
summer months. Ep. 
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