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COMMON SANDPIPER. Crass II. 
the belly and vent white ; the tail cinereous ; the 
two middle feathers longer than the rest; the 
legs black. Size that of the former. 
Tringa Hypoleucos. Ty. ros- Snappa, Strandsittare. Faw. 
tro levi, pedibus cinereis, Suec. sp.182.  - 
corpore cinereo subtus albo. Guinetta, la Guignette. Bris- 
Lath. Ind. orn. 734. 2d. son av. v. 183. tab. 16. fig. 
Syn. v. 178. 1. Hist. dois. vii. 540. Pl. 
Gallinula hypoleucos (Fyster- Enl. 850. 
lin). Gesner av. 509. Norvegis der lille Myrstikkel. 
Aldr. av. iti. 182. Bornholmis Virlen. Bruns 
Wil. orn. 301. nich, 174. 
Rati Syn. av. 108. Martin's Scopoli, No. 143. 
Sandlaufferl. Kram. 353. Br. Zool. 125. Arct. Zool. it. 
Tringa hypoleucos. Gm. Lin. 180. 
678. 
Tuis species agrees with the green sand- 
piper in its manners and haunts, but is more 
common; its note is louder and more piping 
than others of this genus. Its weight is about 
two ounces; the head is brown, streaked with 
downward black lines; the neck is of an_ob- 
scure ash color; the back and coverts of the 
wings brown, mixed with a glossy green, ele- 
gantly marked with transverse dusky lines ; over 
each eye is a white stroke; the breast and belly 
are of a pure white; the quil feathers are brown, 
the first entirely so, the nine next marked on the 
inner web with a white spot; the middle fea- 
thers of the tail brown, the edges spotted with 
