296 SANDPIPER. 



58.— WHITE-WINGED SANDPIPER.— Pl. cliii. 



Tringa leucoptera, Lid. Orn.W. 731. Gin. Lin. i. 678. 

 White-winged. Sandpiper, Gen.Syn.\. 172. pi. 82. 



LENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill cinereous ; irides brown ; 

 head, to below the eyes, hind part of the neck, and back, brownish 

 black ; from the nostrils a dusky white streak, growing broader, 

 passing over the eyes, and finishing behind them; chin, throat, rump, 

 and breast, ferruginous ; with a dusky tinge on the last ; belly and 

 vent paler, or yellowish ; lesser wing coverts white, the rest dusky 

 black, edged with ferruginous ; quills black; tail rounded; the four 

 middle feathers dusky black, the others barred rufous and black; 

 legs greenish ; the quills reach nearly to the end of the tail. 



Inhabits Otaheite ; found near the rivers, and called Torowe : 

 met with also at Eimeo, or York Isle, and there called Tete : from 

 the drawings of Sir Jos. Banks, with a specimen of the bird. 



A. — In this Variety, the streak over the eye is very pale, nearly 

 white ; the lesser wing coverts dusky black ; with an oblique, pale 

 streak, passing over them ; the plumage otherwise answering to the 

 former. 



B. — A second Variety had the crown of the head dusky, the 

 streak over the eye ferruginous, with a tinge of the same throughout 

 the plumage ; bill and legs yellowish. 



59.— ACUMINATED SANDPIPER. 



Totanus acuminatus, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 192.— Horsfield. 



SIZE uncertain. Plumage brown ; the feathers of the back 

 margined with ferruginous, and the wing coverts with grey, beneath 

 whitish, inclining to yellow on the breast; tail feathers accuminated. 

 Inhabits Java, called there Trinil gung. 



