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A.— Tringa varia, hid. Om. ii. 729. Lin. i. 252. Gm. Lin. i. 682. 



Vanellus varius, Bris. v. 100. 1. 10. f. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 238. 



Der gefleckte Kiebiss, Bechst. Deutsch. iii. 153. 



Vanneau varie, PL enl. 923. Gen. Syn. v. 169. 11. A. Br. Zool. 1812. ii. p. 70. A. 



Size of the last. Bill black; head, hind part of the neck, back, 

 and scapulars brown, the feathers margined and spotted with white ; 

 rump the same, but the spots yellowish ; upper tail coverts white, 

 edged with grey and pale yellow; the throat white; fore part of the 

 neck grey brown, the feathers margined with white ; from thence to 

 the vent pure white ; wing coverts like the back ; bastard wing dusky; 

 quills the same ; from the fifth to the ninth edged with white at the 

 tip; the others greyish brown, edged with white; the six inner 

 spotted with white on the margins ; tail barred brown and white ; 

 the outer feather white, except a longitudinal brown streak on the 

 outer web ; legs black. 



This, and the Grey Sandpiper, are often seen flying in Carolina, 

 in great flocks, chiefly in the vallies near the mountains, but very 

 seldom alight. 



B. — General colour above dusky ash, clouded ; sides of the head 

 pale; head marked with dusky small spots; beneath dusky white; 

 chin and throat marked with dusky crescents, placed in perpendicular 

 rows ; sides of the breast, and under the wings marked with large, 

 irregular, dusky spots; tail dusky white, crossed with bars of black. 



Inhabits India, by the name of Balleen. — Sir J. Anstruther. 



I observe, in various drawings of Indian birds, some much darker 

 in colour, and the bars on the tail more distinct ; but the legs are in 

 these yellow. The name given to one was Carrwalla. 



