Class II. ABERDEEN SANDPIPER. 469 



highly efteemed for its delicate tafte ; and is taken 

 with limed twigs placed near its haunts. 



Mr. Fleifcher favored us with a bird from Den* 

 mark, which, in all refpects, refembled this, ex- 

 cept that the fpots were of a pale ruft color: 

 Linnaeus delcribes it under the title of 'Tringa lit- 

 torea, Faun. Suec. fp. 185. but we believe it does 

 not differ fpecifically from that above defcribed. 



Tringa Icelandica. Lin. fyji. Randbriflanger. Brunnich, 202. Red, 



inter addenda. No. 1 80, 



Tringa ferruginea Ijlandis 



Y) IRDS of this fpecies have appeared in great 

 "■^ flocks on the coaft of EJfex, on the eftate of 

 Col. Schutz. 



Crown of the head fpotted with black and fer- 

 ruginous. The lower fide of the neck, the breafb, 

 and belly of a full ferruginous color : back mark- 

 ed with black and ruft color : coverts of the wings 

 alh color : legs black : bill ftrong, an inch and a 

 half long : the whole length of the bird ten inches. 



La Maubeche tachetee. Briffbn V. -29? 203. Aber- 



deen, 



-HpHIS was communicated by the late Doctor 

 •*■ David Skene of Aberdeen. 



I i 2 Bill 



