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Inhabits India, called in the Persic tongue Puny suffard sur, or 

 White-headed Purry. — Sir John Anstruther. 



9. -QUEBEC SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Canadensis, Ind. Orn. ii. p. Ixv. 

 Quebec Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 313. 



SIZE of the Song Thrush ; length nine inches. Bill nearly one 

 inch and a half long, and slender, the base reddish, the rest of its 

 length black; plumage in general dusky, plumbeous ash-colour; 

 feathers of the back margined with the same, and those of the wing 

 coverts and breast with greyish white ; the three first quills dusky, 

 with white shafts ; three of the inner just fringed with white at the 

 tips ; two or three of the next white, marked with ash-colour on the 

 outer web ; then follow two or three almost wholly white; the rest 

 plain dusky; the four middle tail feathers dusky, the others pale ash, 

 fringed at the edges and tips with white; between the bill and eye, 

 and the chin, dusky, mottled white ; fore part of the neck plain ash- 

 colour; belly white ; sides of it, close to the wings, marked with a 

 few dusky spots; thighs (contrary to the usual manner of the Genus) 

 covered with feathers, even below the joint ; legs short, pale yellow. 



Inhabits Quebec, brought from thence by General Davies. 



10.— BROWN-EARED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa aurita, Ind. Orn. ii. p. lxvi. 

 Brown-eared Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 314. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill as long as the head, dusky ; 

 plumage above rusty ash-colour, crossed with numerous whitish 

 lines on the back and wings; the feathers on the outer ridge of the 

 wing edged with white ; over the eye a white streak ; under parts of 



