300 SANDPIPER. 



streak, springing from the shoulder; quills black; tail as the back, 

 crossed with obscure darker bars, four or five in number ; the outer 

 feathers paler than the two middle; the second quills are also marked 

 on each side the shaft with a darker colour; legs stout, black ; hind 

 toe large. — Inhabits India; from the drawings of Lord Mountnorris; 

 named Habee. 



68.— CAYENNE SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Cayanensis, Ind. Om. ii. 727. Gm. Lin. i. 706.— Parra. 



Vanneau arme de Cayenne, Buf. viii. 66. PL enl. 836. Ferm. Surin. ii. 193. 



Le Terutero, on Teteu, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 3S7. 



Cayenne Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. v. 164. 



LENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill red, three quarters of 

 an inch long, with a black tip ; forehead and throat black ; middle 

 of the crown ash-colour; hindhead brown, from it spring five or 

 six blackish, long feathers, forming a dependant crest as in the 

 Lapwing ; neck dusky white ; on the breast a broad black band ; 

 belly and vent white; back greenish purple; outer edge of the wing 

 for some way white ; near the bend a sharp short spur ; base half of 

 the tail white; the rest black, the tip fringed with white; legs 

 reddish. — This bird is met with in the marshy savannahs about 

 Cayenne and Brazil, and lives on insects. 



The one mentioned by Azara. measured thirteen inches, but this 

 may be accounted for, as young ones have been met with, the length 

 of which was only six inches and a half. In Azara's bird was a 

 black streak on the fore part of the neck, which communicates with 

 that on the breast ; in other things not materially different from the 

 first description. He adds, that a young one, six inches and a half 

 long, had only the rudiment of a crest ; the neck whitish brown 

 mixed. It is called at Buenos Ayres, Terutero; in Brazil Quer quer; 

 at Paraguay Teteu, from the cry ; said to be common in both places; 

 generally seen in pairs, rarely in flocks; feeds chiefly on worms, 



