Crass I. EQUESTRIAN SANDPIPER. 
It is of the size of a thrush: the forehead, 
throat, and belly white; the breast black ; the 
neck surrounded with a black collar; from 
thence another bounds the sides of the neck, and 
passes over the forehead; the head and lower 
part of the neck behind white ; the first streaked 
with dusky lines; the back ferruginous, mixed 
with black ; the coverts of the tail white, crossed 
with a black bar; the tail black, tipt with white ; 
the coverts of the wings cinereous brown; the 
lower order edged with white; the primaries 
and secondaries black; the ends of the last 
white ; the tertials ferruginous and black; the 
legs rather short, and of a full orange. 
Tringa equestris. Tr. pedibus Le Chevalier commun. Hist. 
' virescentibus, dorso fusco djotse, vil. Olls «ba dal: 
vario, abdomine uropygioque 844. 
albo. Lath. Ind. orn. 730. 
ad. Sup. ii. 311. 
[THIS species, first noticed by Dr. Latham in 
his second supplement, is twelve inches long; 
the bill dusky; the legs* pale grey; the body 
above rufous grey, clouded with brown; the 
sides of the head, fore part of the neck and 
breast white, clouded with paler brown; on 
the sides of the head are minute specks of the 
* The legs of five shot near Sandwich, by Mr. Boys, in 1800, 
were of a pale orange. Ep. 
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DEScRIPs. 
TION. 
12. EqueEs- 
TRIAN. 
