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GREEN SANDPIPER. Class IL 



20 1. Green. Cinclus. Belon av. 216. 



Gallinseaquaticae fecundafpe- 



cies de nov. adjedl. Gef- 



ner a~u. 511. 

 Giarolo, Gearoncello. Aldr. 



civ. III. 1S5. 

 The Tringa of Aldrovand. 



Wil. cm. 300. 

 Ran fyri: eev. 108. 

 Tringaochropus.Zztf.^y?. 251. 

 Weifpunctirto SandlcsufFer . 



Frifck, II. 239. 



Fann. Siiec. fp. r£o. 



Le Beccaffeau ou Cul-blanc, 

 Tringa. Brijfon a=o. V. 

 177. tab. 16. fig. 1. 



Danis Horfe-Gioeg. IJtan- 

 dis Hroffagaukr. Nowegis 

 Skodde Foil , Skod-de- 

 Fugl. Jordgeed. Makkre- 

 Goukj Rces jouke. Brun- 

 nicb, 183. 



Br. Z00L 12c. 



^TpHIS beautiful fpecies is not very common in 



Descrip. 



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thefe kingdoms. The head and hind part of 



the neck are of a brownifh am color, ftreaked with 

 white; the under part mottled with brown and 

 white : the back, fcapulars, and coverts of the wings 

 are of a dufky green, gloffy and refplendent as filk, 

 and elegantly marked with fmall white fpots : the 

 lefTer quil-feathers of the fame colors : the under 

 fides of the wings are black, marked with nume- 

 rous white lines, pointing obliquely from the edges 

 of the feather to the fhaft, reprefenting the letter 

 V: the rump is whiter the tail of the fame color: 

 the fir ft feather plain, the fecond marked near the 

 end with one black fpot, the third and fourth with 

 two, the fifth with three, and the fixth with four. 



Except in pairing time, it is a folitary bird : it 

 Is never found near thefea; but frequents rivers, 

 lakes, and other frefli waters. In France it is 



highly 



