286 SANDPIPER. 



black, and rufous; forehead and throat pale; fore part of the neck 

 and breast dirty white, longitudinally streaked with black ; across 

 the breast a dusky mottled bar ; sides of the body also mottled ; the 

 middle of the belly, and thighs white ; tail short, brown, the inner 

 coverts white on the inner webs ; legs dusky. 

 Inhabits Nootka Sound. 



45— PURRE SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Cinclus, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 735. Lin. i. 251. Gm. Lin. i. 680. Georgi, p. 172. 



Borowsk. iii. 96. 8. Fn. Helv. Bris. v. 211. t. 19. f. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 267. Rati, 



110. A. 13. Id. 190. 11. Gerin. iv. t. 451. Will. p. 226. 

 Tringa variabilis, Tern. Man. 395. Id. Ed. ii. 612. Frankl. Narr. App. p. 686. 

 L'Alouette de Mer, Buf. vii. 548. PL enl. 851. 

 Die Meerlerche, Bechst. Deuts. iii. 173. t. ix, 

 Least Snipe, Sloan, Jam. 320. t. 265. 4. Brown, Jam. 477. 

 Wagtail, Kolb. Cap. ii. 152 ? 

 Sanderling, Albin, ii. pi. 88. 

 Purre or Stint, Gen. Syn. v. p. 182. Br. Zool. ii. No. 206. pi. 71. Id. fo I. 126. Id. 



1812. ii. p. 94. pi. 16. f. 1. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 390. Will. Engl. 305. Bewick, ii. 



pi. p. 119, Lewin, v. pi. 174. Id. pi. xxxi. 1. — the egg. WalcoVs Birds, ii. pi. 



150. Donov. Birds, pi. 32. Pult. Dors. p. 15. Ornith. Diet. Amer. Orn. vii. 



39. pi. 57. f. 3. 



LENGTH eight inches or more ; breadth twelve or thirteen ; the 

 weight one ounce and three quarters. Bill black ; irides dark ; head 

 and hind part of the neck pale ash-colour, streaked with dusky : 

 between the bill and eye a white line ; the back, and wing coverts 

 brownish ash-colour ; greater coverts dusky, tipped with white ; the 

 under parts white, mottled with brown on the fore part of the neck ; 

 tail cinereous ; the two middle feathers darkest, the others edged 

 with white ; shape at the end, when spread, slightly concave on each 

 side, from the outer feather exceeding the adjoining ones in length ; 

 the scapulars, or inner secondaries, nearly as long as the quills, the 

 shafts of the quills white. 



