SANDPIPER. 



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In some drawings in the collection of Gen. Hardwicke I observe 

 one of these birds, with a deep red bill, one inch and a half long, 

 and the tip black ; irides red ; plumage much as in the above de- 

 scription, but the white line, which runs down in the middle of the 

 black on each side of the neck, passes round the lower part of it ; 

 the hind claw very small, and so placed as to be useless in walking. 



In another drawing, the black reaches as far as the thighs ; the 

 wing coverts are not white ; only a white streak parallel to the wing ; 

 ends of the tail feathers not brown, but white ; and in one the belly, 

 thighs, and vent, were all black. 



73— WATTLED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa lobata, Ind. Orn. Supp. p. lxv. 

 Wattled Sandpiper, Gen. Syn, Sup. ii. 313. 



LENGTH nineteen inches. Bill pale ; irides yellow ; crown 

 and nape black ; sides of the head, and round the eye, covered with 

 a carunculated, yellow membrane, hanging down on each side in a 

 pointed wattle; neck and all beneath white; sides of the breast, next 

 the wings, black ; back and wings olive-brown, with a tinge of rust- 

 colour ; quills and end of the tail black, the extreme tip of the latter 

 white; at the bend of the wing a stout, curved, yellow spur; the 

 bare part of the legs above the knee, and a small space below it, 

 rose-coloured ; the rest black, with rose-coloured segments. 



Inhabits New South Wales, sometimes met with on the flats, 

 going to Paramatta, but is not common. It seems to be a link 

 between the Louisiane, and Senegal Species, but is clearly distinct 

 from either. Native name Kalloo nagh. 



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