ORD. I. GEN, VI. SANDPIPER. 



SPE. III. GAM BET. 



PI. 169. 



Trbga Gambetta. Lin. Syji. I. p. 248. 

 Le Chevalier rouge. Brif. Orn. V. p. 192. 



The gambet meafures twelve inches in length, and is about the fize of the 

 greenfhank. The bill is reddifh, with a black tip, and curves a little upwards : 

 the eyes are yellowifh green : the head, back, and throat, cinereous brown, 

 fpotted with dull yellow: wing coverts, and fcapulars, cinereous, with dull 

 yellowifh edges : quills, dufky ; the fhaft of the firft, white : tail dufky, edged 

 with yellow : belly, white, with a few dufky ftreaks : legs, yellow. 



This bird is not common in England, but has been fhot on the coaft of 

 Lincolnfhire : it is faid to be more frequent in France, but even there is 

 efteemed a rare bird. 





