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19. PuURRE. 
DescrIP- 
TION: 
PURRE SANDPIPER. Cuass II. 
belly white; 
black.* 
Bought in the London market. 
the tail cinereous; the legs 
The Stint. Wil. orn. 305. 
Stint, in Sussex the Ox-eye. 
Rai Syn. av. 110. 
N. Com. Petr. iv. 428. 
Cinclus. L’ Alouette de Mer. 
Brisson av. v. 211. tab. 19. 
Pyels 
pedibusque nigris, loris al- 
Tringa Cinclus. rostro 
bis corpore uropygioque gri- 
seis fuscisque. Lath. Ind. 
orn. 735. id. Syn. v. 182. 
L’ Allouettede Mer. Belonav. 
QS 
Cinclas sive Motacilla Mari- 
tima, Lyssklicker. 
av. 616. 
Giarolo. Aldr, av. iii. 188. 
Gesner 
Jig. 1. Hist. @ ois. vii. 548. 
Pl. Enl. 851. 
Tringa cinclus. Gm. Lin. 251. 
Br. Zool. 126. Arct. Zool. ii. 
181. 
Tus bird weighs about an ounce and a 
half: the length is seven inches and a half; 
the extent fourteen inches. The head and 
hind part of the neck are ash colored, marked 
with dusky lines; a white stroke divides the 
bill and eyes; the chin white; the underside 
of the neck mottled with brown; the back 
is of a brownish ash color; the breast and 
belly white; the coverts of the wings and tail 
a dark brown, edged with light ash color or 
* Mr. Montagu entertains doubts with respect to this bird be- - 
ing a distinct species, and observes that a young Dunlin killed in 
July, exactly corresponds with the above, except that unt head 
and back of the neck are of a ferruginous brown. 
