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they were a favorite difh with that monarch. We 

 know that he kept the feaflof the purification of the 

 Virgin Mary with great pomp and magnificence at 

 Ely, and this being one of the fen birds, it is not un- 

 likely but he met with it there *. Shake/pear in his 

 Othello, fpeaking of Roderigo (if Mr. Theobald's, read- 

 ing is juft) makes the Knot an emblem of a dupe. 



«' I have rubb'd this young Knot almoft to thefenfe; 

 «' And he grows angry. Othello. 



V. The ASH-COLORED SANDPIPER. 



Tnnga cinerea. Brunnicb ornitb. Br. ZooL 124. 



53- 



'TpHIS fpecies weighs five ounces: the length is Defer 



•** ten inches: the breadth nineteen: the head is 

 of a brownifh afh-color, fpotted with black : the 

 whole neck afh-color, marked with dufky oblong 

 ilreaks : the back and coverts of the wings elegantly 

 varied with concentric femicircles of afh-color, black 

 and white : the coverts of the tail barred with black 

 and white : the tail afh-colored, edged with white: 

 the breaft and belly of a pure white 1 : the legs of a 

 greenifh black : the toes bordered with a narrow 

 membrane, finely f,:olIoped. 



Thefe birds appear on the flhores of FH^tJhife, m 

 the winter time, in large Socks. 



A a 2 VI. The 



