294 SANDPIPER. 



53.— BROWN SANDPIPER. 



Tringa fusca, Ind. Orn. ii. 733. 



Brown Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. Sup. 250. Br. Zool. ii. 195. Id. 1812. ii. p. 93. Orn. 

 Diet. 



SIZE of the Jacksnipe. Bill black ; head, neck behind, and 

 back, pale brown, spotted with black ; wing coverts dusky, edged 

 with white ; neck before white, streaked with black ; belly white ; 

 tail cinereous ; legs black. 



In the collection of the late Mr. Tunstall, bought in the London 

 market. We suspect this to be an immature bird of the Little Sand- 

 piper; it also imitates the colours of a young Dunlin. 



54.— NORTHERN SANDPIPER. 



RATHER less than the Common Snipe. Bill one inch and a quarter 

 long, black, and slender; crown of the head chestnut, streaked with 

 dusky black ; neck behind much the same, but paler; feathers of 

 the back dusky black, with rufous margins ; wing coverts the same, 

 but the margins paler ; quills dusky, the shaft of the first white ; 

 second quills shorter than the prime ones, and like the back ; rump 

 dusky; chin and belly buff white; fore part and sides of the neck 

 the same, inclining to rufous, streaked with dusky ; over the eye, 

 from the nostrils, a pale streak ; the two middle tail feathers like 

 the back, and longer than the others, which are ash-colour, with 

 pale margins ; legs brown, one inch and a half long, and bare above 

 the knee for about half an inch. 



Inhabits North America ; brought from Quebec by Gen. Davies. 



