266 SANDPIPER. 



the Sea Sandpiper of Mr. Mark wick, in the Lin. Trans, above 

 quoted. This is not to be wondered at, as they are said to vary 

 much at different periods of age and season, as the Stint and Dunlin. 

 Mr. Markwick mentions ten or twelve being met with on the sea 

 coast near Bexhill, in December. Two of Walcot's birds were shot 

 on the Coast of Devon, in winter. That described by Col. Montagu 

 under the name of Phayrelarn Sandpiper, was killed on the Coast 

 of Caermarthenshire, in company with Purres; and two others shot 

 also there the same winter. M. Temminck thinks the Knot to be 

 a young bird of this species. 



25— BLACK SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Lincolniensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 734. 



Black Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. Sup. 251. Br. Zool. ii. No. 197. Id. 1812. ii. p. 81. 

 Orn. Diet. £f Supp. 



SIZE of a Thrush. Bill short, blunt, and dusky ; nostrils black ; 

 irides yellow; head small, flattened at top, white, most elegantly 

 spotted with grey ; neck, shoulders, and back, mottled in the same 

 manner, but darker, and tinged with brown ; in some lights 

 appearing black, and glossy; wings long; quills black, crossed 

 near the base with a white line; throat, breast, and belly, white, 

 with faint brown and black spots, in form longish, irregularly dis- 

 persed, becoming larger, and more round on the belly ; tail short, 

 entirely white, except the two middle feathers, which are black ; 

 legs long, slender, reddish brown. This was shot in Lincolnshire, 

 and communicated to Mr. Pennant by Mr. Bolton ; is thought by 

 Colonel Montagu to be allied to, and probably the young of, the 

 Selninger, or Purple Sandpiper. 



