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the tail confifts of twelve feathers, their lower half is 

 white, the upper black, and the tips white : the quil- 

 feathers are dusky, but from the third or fourththe 

 bottoms are white, which continually increafes, till 

 from about the nineteenth the feathers are entirely of 

 that color : the legs are fhort and of an orange 

 color. 



Thefe birds take their name from their method of 

 fearching for food, by turning up fmall {tones with 

 their ftrong bills to get at the infects that lurk under 

 them. The bird we toke our defcription from was 

 mot in Shropjhire. Mr. Ray obferved them flying 

 three or four in company on the coafts of Cornwaland 

 Merioneth/hire: and Sir 'Thomas Brown of Norwich 

 difcovered them on the coaft of Norfolk ; com- 

 municating the picture of one to Mr. Ray, with the 

 name of Morinellus marinus, or fea dottrel. Linnaeus 

 fuppofes the Tringa interpres to be this bird, but 

 we believe his fpecies is not to be found on our 

 poafts. 



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