472 P U R R E. Class II. 



Flint/hire^ fuppofe they breed with us ; but I never 

 difcovered their neft. They are common on the 

 York/hire coafls, and efteemed a great delicacy. 



206. Purre. L'Allouette de Mer. Belon Stint, in Suffix the Ox-eye. 

 a<v. 213. Rail Jyn. a-u. no. 



Cinclus five Motacilla Mari- N. Com. Petr. IV. 428. 



tima, Lyfbklicker. Gefner L'Allouette de Mer, Cinclus. 



a<v. 616. Briffin av. V. 211. tab. 19. 

 Giarolo. Aldr. a<v. III. 1S8. fig. 1. 



The Stint. Wil. orn. 30c;. Tringa cinclus. Lin.Jyft. 251. 



Br. Zool, 126. 



Descrip. ^TpHIS bird weighs about an ounce and a half 



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length feven inches and a half; extent fourteen 



•o 



inches : the head and hind part of the neck are afh 

 colored, marked with dufky lines : a white ftroke 

 divides the bill and eyes : the chin white : under- 

 fide of the neck mottled with brown : the back is 

 of a browniih afh color: the breaft and belly 

 white : the coverts of the wings and tail a dark 

 brown, edged with light afh color or white : the 

 greater coverts dufky, tipt with white : the upper 

 part of the quil-feathers dusky, the lower white : 

 the two middle feathers of the tail dusky, the reft 

 of a pale afn color, edged with white: the legs of 

 a dusky green •, the toes divided to their origin. 

 The bill an inch and a half long, flenderand black 5 

 irides dusky. 



Theie birds come in prodigious flocks on our 



fea, 



