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ORD. I. GEN. VI. SANDPIPER. 



SPE. XV. GREENWICH SANDPIPER. 

 PL 181. 



This bird is about the fize of the redfhank ; the length twelve inches and a half. 

 The bill is black : the crown of the head, reddifh brown, ftreaked with black : the 

 cheeks, and neck, afh-coloured ; the middle of the feathers dufky down the fliaft : the 

 feathers on the lower part of the neck and back, black, with pale ruft coloured margins : 

 chin, pale : the fore part of the neck, pale afh-colour : breaft, dufky white : belly, lides, 

 and vent, white : lefs wing coverts, alh-coloured ; the greater coverts, the fame, with 

 ferruginous margins ; the greateft, tipped with white : prime quills, dufky, with whitifh 

 fhafts : fecondaries, and fcapulars, much the fame as the back : lower part of the back, 

 rump, and upper tail coverts, afh-colour: tail, brownifh afh-colour, mottled near the tip, 

 and fringed at the end with pale ruft colour : legs dufky olive green. 



This appears to be an uncommon fpecies, as only two inftances of its being met with 

 have occurred to us ; the one fhot at Greenwich, which is now in Mr. Latham's collec- 

 tion, the other at Sandwich. 



Mr. Pennant had admitted another fpecies, by the name of the brown fandpiper, which 

 he defcribes as of the fize of a jack fnipe : the bill black : the head, upper part of the 

 neck, and back, pale brown, fpotted with black : coverts of the wings, dufky, edged with 

 dirty white : under fide of the neck, white, ftreaked with black : belly, white : tail, cine- 

 reous : legs, black. The fpecimen is in the collection of the late Marmaduke Tun- 

 ftall, Efq. who procured it in one of the London markets. It is the only one I have ever 

 heard of, and, I fuppofe, merely a young bird, not in full plumage. 



