254 SANDPIPER. 



the body pale, a little mottled, or streaked ; on the ears a brown 

 patch, passing through the eye, but less distinct ; quills and tail 

 dusky ; legs dusky white. 



Inhabits New South Wales. Found about the shores and moist 

 places, but is not a numerous species. 



11.— NEW-HOLLAND SANDPIPER. 



SIZE of the Redshank. Bill and legs black ; general colour of 

 the plumage brown, or mouse-colour, marked with black brown; 

 but each feather of the back, rump, and scapulars, has a large spot 

 near the end, and fringed with ferruginous ; quills brown, and equal 

 the tail in length ; the second quills are ferruginous, barred with 

 black, having four or five curved bars on each feather ; shafts of the 

 quills white; tail short, the two middle feathers like the second quills, 

 the others brown, barred with black; thighs less than one-third 

 covered with feathers ; these, the belly, vent, and under tail coverts, 

 white; breast marked as the neck, the spots larger as they are lower; 

 under wing coverts mixed brown and white. 



Inhabits New-Holland. A specimen of this in the collection of 

 Mr. Harrison. 



12.— UNDULATED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa undata, Ind. Orn. ii. 732. Gm. Lin. i. t78. Brun. No. 183. 



sordide flava, &c. Schr. d. Berl. Nat. vii. 463. Besek. Kurl. 65. 129. 



Waved Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. v. 173. Arct. Zool. ii. 481. E. 



GENERAL colour dusky, undulated with luteous and white; 

 wing coverts and secondaries tipped with white ; rump white ; tail 

 cinereous, and margined with black at the tip ; shaft of the first 

 prime quill white. — Inhabits Denmark and Norway. Found also 

 in Courland. 



