302 SANDPIPER. 



70.— SENEGAL SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Senegalla, Ind. Orn. ii. 728. 



Parra Senegalla, Lin. i. 259. Gm. Lin. i. 706. 



Vanellus Senegalensis armatus, Bris. v. t. 10. f. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 240. 



Vanneau arme du Senegal, Buf. viii. 62. PL enl. 362. 



Senegal Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. v. 166. Adans. Seneg. 78. — Uett. 



SIZE of a Lapwing ; length fourteen inches ; to the end of the 

 toes sixteen. Bill one inch and a half, yellowish, with a dusky 

 point ; at the base, on each side of the forehead, a yellowish skin, 

 pointed below, and rounded above, where it is red, or deep orange ; 

 the depth is three quarters of an inch, width one quarter, reaching 

 to the eye, but not surrounding it ; top of the head dusky ; forehead 

 and crown to the middle white ; chin and throat black ; on the 

 sides of the neck before streaked brown and white ; head and 

 upper part of the neck, body, and lesser wing coverts greyish brown ; 

 beneath the same, but paler ; lower belly, under wing, and tail 

 coverts, white; greater quills black; outer series of coverts white, 

 forming an oblique streak on the wing, at the bend of which is a 

 black spur ; tail four inches long, about two inches from the base 

 white, then black for two inches, and finally white at the tip ; the 

 wings exceed the tail in length ; legs seven inches long, greenish 

 black,* bare part above the knee one inch and three quarters, shins 

 three inches, middle toe one inch and a quarter, hind toe very minute. 



Inhabits Senegal, and there called Uett Uett, by the French 

 Squaller, for on seeing any one it sets up a loud scream, on which 

 other birds partake of the alarm, and fly otF; commonly seen in pairs. 

 Mr. Salt met with it in Abyssinia, by the stream of the Seremai, in 

 the Vale of Logo. Its habits like those of the Common Lapwing; 

 seen also in Egypt. 



* In the PI. enlwm. the legs are yellow. 



