464 BLACK SANDPIPER. Class II. 



Pesqrip. The bill is of the fame colors with that of the 

 red fhank : the head, upper part of the neck, the 



back and coverts of the wings, are brown, in- 

 clining; to olive, and marked with triangular black 

 fpots : above each eye is a white line : the greater 

 quil-feathers are wholly black, the leiTer tipt with 

 white : the middle feathers of the tail are brown : 

 the fide feathers white, marked with dufky lines : 

 the whole under fide, from neck to tail, is white, 

 marked with dusky fpots : the female has none 

 of thefe fpots, except on the throat : the legs of 

 a dusky flefh color. Mr. Edwards imagines thefe 

 to be birds of paffage ; the bird he toke his de- 

 fcription from was fhot in Effex. 



197. Black. T\/FR« Bolton favored us with a defcription of this 



**" fpecies (hot in Lincoln/loir e. 

 Descrip. It was the fize of a thrum : the beak fhort, 



blunt at the point and dusky: the noftrils black: 

 the irides yellow : the head fmall and flatted at 

 top : the color white, mod elegantly fpotted with 

 grey: the neck, moulders, and back mottled in 

 the fame manner, but darker, being tinged with 

 brown \ in fome lights thefe parts appeared of a 

 perfect black and gloffy : the wings were long : 

 the quil-feathers black, crofTed near their bafe 

 with a white line: the throat, bread, and belly 

 white, with faint brown and black fpots of a 



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