SANDPIPER. 261 



Inhabits France and Germany, also Switzerland ; frequents the 

 sea shores for the sake of food; the manners otherwise unknown. 

 We have seen one corresponding with the above from Gibraltar, 

 which differed in having the under parts white. 



Specimens of this bird have been met with in the poulterer's 

 shops in London, in the month of May; and Mr. Bullock mentions 

 one shot in the Island of Sanda, on the 20th of August, out of a 

 small flock, on the edge of the Great Lake Stennis, on the Mainland 

 of Orkney. Has been also killed at Hare Island, off Greenland, in 

 June, and supposed to be the Knot in one of its changes towards 

 the adult. See Lin. Trans, xii. 533. 



20— RED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Islandica, Ind. Orw.ii. 737. Lin. Syst. Add. Gm. Lin. i. 682. Tern. Man. 395. 



ferruginea, Brun. No. 180. Muller, No. 205. 



Die rothbauchige Schnepfe, Bechst. Deut. iii. 84. t. vi. 

 Aberdeen Sandpiper, Br.Zool. 1812. p. 89. A ? 



Red Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. v. p. 186. Br. Zool. ii. No. 202. pi. 72. Id. 1812. ii. p. 

 89. pi. 17. f. 1. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 393. 



LENGTH from eight to ten inches, size of the Missel Thrush ; 

 breadth seventeen inches. Bill one inch and a half long, a little 

 bent downwards; the head, neck behind, and beginning of the back, 

 dusky, marked with red ; back and shoulders black, mixed with red 

 and whitish ; rump dull ash-grey, margins of the feathers paler ; 

 tail coverts white in the middle, with black bands ; under parts of 

 the body ferruginous, spotted on the sides of the neck with black ; 

 the rest beneath clouded with white ; wing coverts dull reddish ash- 

 colour, edged with pale grey ; quills blackish, the prime ones with 

 white shafts, and the secondaries white at the ends ; the others 

 whitish on the inner webs ; tail rounded at the end, ash-grey, with 

 the shafts and inner webs whitish, beneath pale grey ; legs longish, 

 black. 



