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from the upper mandible backwards, and neck dull white, streaked 

 with black ; back pale, slaty olive, the feathers tipped with white, 

 barred and spotted with black, and pale ferruginous; tail coverts 

 white, elegantly barred with black ; wings plain dusky, towards the 

 extremity black ; greater coverts tipped with white ; shafts of the 

 primaries white; tail pale cinereous olive, finely edged with white ; 

 the two middle feathers somewhat the longest ; belly and vent white ; 

 on the latter small sagittal spots of black; legs and feet black ; toes 

 bordered with a narrow membrane. 



Both sexes are nearly alike, but in some specimens the red on 

 the breast is much paler, in others descends as far as the thighs. 



This is, by Mr. Wilson, thought to be a species hitherto unde- 

 scribed.* Known on the sea coast by the name of Grey-back ; 

 appears on the shores of the Middle States of America, in May, and 

 after a few weeks disappears till October. Is a plump, tender, and 

 excellent bird for the table ; usually seen in small flocks, and feeds 

 on the small bivalve shells, met with on the shore. 



22.— BARTRAM'S SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Bartramia, Bartram's Sandpiper, Amer. Orn. vii. 63. pi. 59. f. 2. 

 Totanus Bartramia, Chevalier a longue queue, Tern. Man. Ed. 2d. 660. 



THIS is twelve inches long, and twenty-one in extent. Bill one 

 inch and a half long, slightly bent downwards, wrinkled at the 

 base, colour yellow, with the top, or ridge of the upper mandible, 

 black ; eyes large ; irides dark ; front, stripe over the eye, neck, and 

 breast, pale ferruginous, with small black streaks, on the lower part 

 of the breast in the shape of arrow heads; crown black; the plumage 

 slightly skirted with whitish ; chin, orbits, belly, and vent, white ; 

 hindhead and neck above ferruginous, minutely streaked with black ; 

 back and scapulars black, the former slightly fringed with ferru- 



* M. Temminck joins it with the last Species. 



