Clate II. SPOTTED SANDPIPER. Z C 9 



VII. The SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 



Spotted Tringa. Edw av..2jj. Tringa macularja. Liu. f h l. 

 ■Turdus aqvtaticus, la Gnve 249. 



xi'Jiau. Bni£an anj. v. 255. Bt. ZoA. 124. 



fTT^HIS bird is common to Europe and America ; 

 A according to Mr. Edwards's figure, it is lefs 

 than the preceding. 



The bill is of the fame colors with that of the 

 red-.fhank : die head, upper pare of the neck, the 

 back and coverts of the wings, are brown inclining to 

 olive, and marked with triangular black {pots : above 

 each eye is a white line : the greater quil-feathers are 

 wholly black, the leiTer tipt with white: the mid- 

 dle feathers of the tail are brown : the fide feathers 

 white, marked with dusky lines : the whole under 

 fide, from neck to tail, is white marked with dusky 

 fpots : the female has none of thefe fpots, except 

 on the throat: the legs of a dusky rlefh color. 

 Mr. Edwards imagines thefe to be birds of paflage ; 

 the bird he toke his deicription from was fhoc 

 in EJfex. 



VIII. The BLACK SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 



"]% /f"P- Bolton favored us with a defcription of this 

 A. fit fpecies mot in Lincolnfhlre. 



It was the fize of a thrum : the beak fhort, blunt 

 St the point and dufky : the noftrils black: the 



A a 4 hides 



Defer. 



Defer* 



