SANDPIPER. 295 



55— FASCIATED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa fasciata, Ind. Orn. ii. 738. Gm. Lin. i. 671. F. G. GmeL It. ii. 194. t. 26. 

 Fasciated Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 312. 



THIS species has the bill, crown, hindhead, and belly, black ; 

 through the eye a streak of the same ; back ash-colour ; the first 

 seven quills black; forehead and tail white, the last rounded at the 

 end. — Inhabits Astrachan. 



56— SIBERIAN SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Keptuschca, Ind. Orn. ii. 738. Gm. Lin. i. 673. Lep. It. ii. 229. 

 Siberian Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 312. 



THIS has the body cinereous; crown of the head black ; belly 

 dusky; the last growing rufous towards the bottom. 

 Inhabits the marshes of Siberia. 



57.— EASTERN SANDPIPER. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill one inch and a half, straight, 

 dusky, with a pale base ; crown of the head dusky ash, spotted with 

 white ; neck cinereous white, streaked with dusky ; breast, belly, 

 thighs, and vent, white ; back, wings, and tail, dusky ash, marked 

 with numerous spots of white ; the quills reach to the middle of the 

 tail ; legs ash-colour. 



Inhabits India, called Purry Tunnonah. — Sir J. Anstruther. 



Among the drawings of this gentleman, I find others with the 

 name of Purry ; and as they are all of the Sandpiper Genus, I 

 cannot but assimilate our name of Purre, given to the Stint, as being 

 derived both from the same source. 



