248 SANDPIPER. 



Shore Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. v. p. 171. Arct. Zool. ii. 481. E. Bewick, ii. p. 99. 

 Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



SIZE of the Green Sandpiper; length ten inches and a half. 

 Bill sixteen lines long, dusky ; plumage above the same ; the neck 

 obliquely striped with white; back and wing coverts with small 

 rusty spots; quills plain, the secondaries tipped with white; shaft 

 of the first white; breast and belly white; tail barred dusky and 

 white, undulated ; legs dusky. 



Inhabits the marshes of Sweden and Denmark, and other parts 

 of the Continent, in low and moist situations ; common in Holland ; 

 sometimes comes into England in winter. Whether this bird is the 

 one quoted above from Azara seems uncertain, but it answers in 

 many respects to our description. Some have supposed it to belong 

 to the Green Sandpiper; but M. Temminck thinks it to be a Ruff 

 in the first year's plumage. 



3— GREENWICH SANDPIPER. 



Tiinga Grenovicensis, Jnd. Orn. ii. 731. 



Greenwich Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. Sup. 249. Lewin, Birds, v. pi. 180. Wale. Birds, 

 ii. pi. 154. Br. Zool. 1812. ii. p. 91. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



SIZE of the Redshank ; weight nearly eight ounces ; length 

 twelve inches and a half. Bill one inch and a half long, and black ; 

 crown of the head reddish brown, streaked with black ; nape, cheeks, 

 and neck, ash-colour, the feathers dusky down the shafts; those of 

 the neck and back black, margined with pale ferruginous ; and 

 some tipped with the same; chin nearly white; neck before very 

 pale ash-colour to the breast, which is dusky white ; belly, sides, 

 vent, sides of the upper, and the whole of the under tail coverts, 

 white; lesser wing coverts ash-colour; the greater the same, ob- 

 scurely margined with pale ferruginous, the greatest tipped with 



