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ORD. I. GEN. VI. SANDPIPER. 



SPE. VI. ASH-COLOURED SANDPIPER. 

 PL 172. 



This fpecies is ten inches long, twenty in breadth, and weighs five ounces. 

 The bill is black : the head, afli-coloured, fpotted with black : the neck, afh- 

 coloured, with dufky ftreaks : the back, and wing coverts, finely variegated 

 with concentric circles of black, afli-colour, and white : tail coverts, barred 

 black and white : tail, alh-coloured, edged with white : bread, white, fpotted 

 with black : belly, white : legs, dufky green : the toes are bordered on each 

 fide with a narrow membrane, finely fcalloped. 



The afh-coloured fandpiper is often feen in large flocks, in the winter fea- 

 fon, on the fhores of Flintfhire. On the coaft of Devon, and at Sandwich, it 

 has been feen in numbers, as late as the firft week in March, about which 

 time it is fuppofed to take its departure. 



