ClafsIL SCOLLOP TOED SANDPIPER. 391 



with afh-color : the legs are of a lead color : the toes 

 extremely lingular, being edged with fcolloped mem- 

 branes like the coot : four fcollops on the exterior 

 toe, two on the middle, and the fame on the interior; 

 each finely ferrated on their edges. 



This bird was mot in Torkjhire^ and communicated 

 to us by Mr. Edwards. 



II. The RED SCOLLOP TOED SANDPIPER, 



Mr. John/on $ fmall cloven footed fyn. a<v. i 3 2. 



Gull. Wil.orn. 355. Ednxi. a<v. 143. 



Ray's colle&ion oiEngUJh words, Tringa hyperborea. Lin. jyj?. 



&c. p. 92. 249. 

 Lams fidipes alter noflras. Rati 



THIS bird is defcribed by Mr. Ray from a 

 fpecimen Ihot in Torkjhire ; this fpecies has not 

 yet fallen within our notice, which obliges us to give 

 its defcription in the words of our countryman. 



" It is of the bignefs of a black-bird, or fomething D e f cr . 

 <c lefs : its bill is (lender, ftraight, (harp pointed, 

 " black, round, having no knob on the lower man- 

 " dible : the crown of a black or dark red : the fides 

 •■ and underfides of the neck red : the belly and whole 

 •* nether fide white : the back and wings brown, 

 " fpotted with yellowifii fpots ; in the wings is a 

 " tranfverfe white line in the tips of the feathers : the 

 *' wings are long : the tail fhort : the toes not web- 

 ** bed together, but bordered on each fide with 

 " lateral membranes fcolloped and elegantly ferrated. 

 " Whence, when I firft faw the skin of it fluffed ac 

 '* Mr. Johnfon's, at Brignall, Torkjhire, from the make 

 * c of its feet, I judged it to be of the coot kind ; but 



" being 



