470 COMMON SANDPIPER. Class II, 



Bill (lender and black : head, back, lefier co- 

 verts of the wings, and the fcapulars, of a dull fer- 

 ruginous color, fpotted with black : the greater co- 

 verts tipt with white : quil-feathers dufky, edged 

 on the exterior fide with white : bread reddifh. 

 brown, mixed with dufky : belly and vent white : 

 tail cinereous ; two middle feathers longer than the 

 reft : legs black ; fize of the former. 



204. Com- 

 mon. 



Gallinula hypoleucos (Fyf- Guinetta, la Gulgnette. Brif- 



terlin). Gefiur av. 509. 

 , v. III. 182. 

 Wil, orn. 301. 

 Rati fyn. av. 108. 

 SandlaufFerl. Kraftt. 353. 

 Tringa hypoleucos. Lm.fyjl. 



250. 

 Snappa, Strandfutare. Faun. 



Suec. fp. 182. 



Jen a-v. V. 183. tab. 16. 



fig- >• 



Kor-vegis der lille Myrftik- 

 kel. Bornbolmis Virlen. 

 Brnnnich, 174. 



Br. Zool. 125. 



Martin's Sccpoli, No. 143. 



Descmp. 



THIS fpecies agrees with the former in its man- 

 ners and haunts ; but is more common : its 

 note is louder and more piping than others of this 

 Its weight is about two ounces : the head 



genus. 



is brown, (beaked with downward black lines -, the 

 neck an obfeure afh color : the back and coverts 

 of the wings brown, mixed with a glofly green, 

 elegantly marked with traniVerfe du/ky lines : over 

 each eye is a white (broke : the bread and belly are 

 of a pure white : the quil-feathers are brown, the 

 firft entirely fo, the nine next marked on the inner 



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