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26.— YELLOW-LEGGED SANDPIPER. 



Yellow-legged Sandpiper, Orn. Diet. App. Br. Zool. 1812. ii. p. 70. 



SIZE of the Grey Sandpiper; length eleven inches and a half. 

 Bill one inch and a half long, black half way from the end, base 

 yellow ; irides light yellow ; head and neck cinereous, streaked with 

 dusky ; body above cinereous brown, the middle of each feather 

 dusky; beneath the spurious wing a patch of white ; prime quills 

 dusky, shaft of the first white ; secondaries white halfway from their 

 tips; under parts of the body and the rump white; tail, and its 

 upper coverts, cinereous brown ; under coverts speckled with dusky ; 

 legs orange yellow. 



This bird was bought in the market at Bath, in winter ; first 

 described by Colonel Montagu in his Ornithological Dictionary, 

 and appeared to him as a nondescript species. 



27.— GREY SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Squatarola, Ind. Orn. ii. 729. Fn. suec. No. 186. Gm. Lin. i. 682. Scop. i. 



No. 144. Brun. No. 176. Midler, p. 25. Georgi, 172. Fn. arag. 77. Fn.Helv. 

 Vanellus griseus, Bris. v. 100. t. 9. f. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 237. 



Vanellus melanogaster, Tern. Man. 345. Id. Ed. ii. 547. Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 186. 

 Pluvialis cinerea, Raii, 111. A. 3. Will. 229. t. 37- Klein, 20. 3. Id. Stem. t. 3. 



f. 2. a— c. 

 Vanneau Pluvier, Buf. viii. 68. PI. enl. 854. 

 Der graue Kiebiss, Beckst. Deuts. iii. 151. Naturf. xiii. 216. 

 Grey Plover, Alb. i. pL 76. Will. Engl. 309. pi. 57. Brown, Jam. 478. Frankl. 



Narr. App. p. 684. 

 Grey Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. v. 168. Id. Sup. 248. Br. Zool. ii. No. 191. Id.fol. 



122. Id. 1812. ii. p. 69. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 393. Bewick, pi. p. 331. Lewin, v. 



pi. 169. Id. pi. xxx. f. 1.— the egg. Walcot, ii. pi. 146, Pult. Dors. p. 15. 



Orn. Diet. 



THE length of this bird is eleven or twelve inches ; breadth 

 twenty-two ; weight nearly seven ounces. Bill one inch and a 



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