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ORD. I. GEN. VI. SANDPIPER. 



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SPE. VII. COMMON SANDPIPER. 



PI. 173. 



Tringa Hypoleucos. Lin, Syft. I. p. 250. 

 La Guignette. Brif. Orn. V. p. 183. 



This fpecies is feven inches and a half in length, thirteen in breadth, and 

 weighs two ounces. The bill is brown : the eyes, hazel s the plumage on the 

 upper parts of a filky gloffinefs : the head, brown, ftreaked with black : over 

 each eye a ftreak of white : the neck, dull afh-colour : back, and wings, green- 

 ifh brown, croffed with narrow dulky lines : the breaft, and under parts, white: 

 the quills, brown ; the firft, plain ; in the nine following, a white fpot on the 

 inner web : tail, rounded, of a gloffy greenifh brown; the four middle feathers, 

 croffed with fine blackifh lines ; the two next, the fame, with white tips ; the 

 laft but one, fpotted with white on the edges ; the outer one, white, barred on 

 the inner web with brown : legs, greenifh brown. 



The female is fomewhat larger than the male : her plumage not quite fo 

 deeply coloured, and lefs diftinttly marked. 



This bird vifits England in the fummer only, and frequents the banks of 

 rivulets, laying about five eggs, in fome convenient hollow, not far from the 

 brink. It has a piping kind of note, which may be heard at fome diftance, and 

 which it often repeats. For the egg, fee PI. XXXVIII. Fig. 1. 



