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ORD. I. GEN. VI. SANDPIPER. 



SPE. IX. PUR RE. 



PI. 175. 



Tringa cinclus. Lin. Syft. I. p. 251. 

 Alouette de Mer. Brif. Orn. V. p. 21 1. 



This is a fpecies pretty well known : in length it is about feven inches, 

 breadth thirteen, and weighs an ounce and half. The bill is black, and a very 

 little bent at the tip : the noftrils very long, though narrow : the head, and 

 hind part of the neck, are dark afh-colour, with dufky ftreaks : from the bill 

 there is a white line, paffing above the eye, with a dark brown ftreak between 

 the eye and bill : the back and wing coverts are brownifh afh-colour ■, greater 

 coverts, darker, tipped with white : the firft quill feathers, dark brown -, the 

 fecondaries, marked with a white fpot in the middle, and tipped with white : the 

 fore part of the neck, bread, and belly, white j the neck, and upper part of the 

 breaft, ftreaked with brown : the tail, brownifh afh-colour, the two middle 

 feathers being darkeft, the others edged with white : legs, dufky green. 



The female is an inch longer than the male, and proportionally broader, and 

 heavier. Her plumage is of a lighter tint, and has in general a changeable 

 hue; the four middle tail feathers, brownifh afh-colour. The plumage of the 

 young birds, of both fexes, inclines to brown, and the edges of the feathers are 

 ruft coloured. 



This bird breeds in England, and is met with at all feafons. It is known on 

 many of our coafts, by the name of ox- bird. The egg is reprefented in 

 PI. XXXVIII. Fig. 2. 



