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the back dusky, but the upper tail coverts have much white in them ; 

 legs pale yellow. Mr. Abbot observes, the inner webs of the quills 

 are barred with white, the first most ; beneath the wings, on the 

 pinions, and next the body beautifully barred with black and white; 

 the coverts and quills paler. The female is more yellow brown. 



A small flock of these came to a pond in Burke Country, in 

 Georgia, the end of July, skulked among the weeds and grass, 

 running like a Partridge; they were remarkably fat. 



24.— SELNINGER SANDPIPER. 



Tringa raaritima, Ind. Orn. ii. 731. Gm. Lin. i. 678. Brun. No. 182. Muller, No. 

 206. Leems Lap/. No. 254. Lin. Trans, xii. p. 532. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. p. 619. 

 Tringa nigricans, Phayrelarn Sandpiper, Lin. Trans, iv. 40. pi. iv. 

 Sea Sandpiper, Lin. Trans, iv. 22. pi. 1. Orn. Did. fy Supp. 

 Purple Sandpiper, Wale. ii. pi. 155. Orn. Diet. 



Selninger Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. v. 173. Id. Supp. ii. 312. Br. Zool. 1812. ii. p. 80. 

 Aret. Zool. ii. 480. C. 



LENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill one inch and a quarter, 

 a trifle curved, dull red, but the tip and sides dusky ; irides hazel ; 

 head and neck dusky black ; eyelids whitish ; throat white ; back 

 and scapulars black, glossed with purple and edged with ash-colour ; 

 wing coverts black, tipped with white, the tertials more deep ; quills 

 black, with the outer margins white ; three of the secondaries almost 

 wholly so; hence arises an oblique white bar, when the wing is 

 extended ; shafts white ; breast, and all beneath white, prettily 

 spotted with black, except the middle of the belly and vent; rump, 

 tail coverts, and four middle tail feathers black, glossed as the back ; 

 the rest light cinereous; legs of a dull red. 



The Selninger Sandpiper inhabits Norway and Iceland, also 

 Greenland ; living about the sea shores, and has a piping note. I 

 conceive this to be no other than the Purple Sandpiper of Mr. 

 Walcot, and the Phayrelarn Species of Colonel Montagu ; likewise 



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