iwia o%&ci?BoLogr. $** 



long 5 the two outmoft connected by a membrane almoft to the firft joynt : The back- 

 toe little : The Claws black. 



Thisisafolitarybird} yet in breeding time they fly two together, Male and Fe- 

 male, about the banks of Pools, Lakes, and Rivers. 



The GaUinula rhodopus or phvnicopus of Gefner, which he faith the Germans call 

 Steingallel, differs from the Steingallel of Baltner in the colour of the Legs, which in 

 Gefners Bird was like that of a Rofe or Amethy ft, in Baltners a dirty green. But fee- 

 ing the other notes agree, T judge it to be the fame Bird, different perchance in Sex: 

 iince ( as Baltmr hath obferved ) infome of thefe Birds the Sexes differ in the colour 

 of their feet. 



§. II. 



* The third Tringa of Aldrovand, called by the Italians, Giaroncello & Pinirolo, 



THe Bill of this is much blacker than that of the precedent, and a little fhorters 

 the upper Chap fomewhat longer than the nether. It is the fame for lhape of 

 body, only fomewhat different in colours : For whereas both are chiefly of a dusky 

 and chefhut-colour in the Head, Neck, Back, and Wings, that in all thefe parts hath 

 more of dusky, this more of the other colour. The Tail in like manner, though it be 

 fbmething fhorter, is white underneath, above approaches to the fame chefnut co-* 

 lour. In the Breaft, Belly, Thighs, Legs and Feet it differs little or nothing. 



§. III. 



The lejfer Tringa or Sandpiper: An Cinclus fecundus feu minor * Aldrov? Gallinula * ornhhU 

 hypoleucos Gefaeri, Aldrov.tom.%. pag.469. Ein Pfifterlein Leon.Baltner. wm.i.p.492, 



IT weighs near two ounces , and is from Bill to Feet eight inches three quarters in 

 length. 



The middle of the Neck 1% afli-coloured, elfe the whole upper furface of the body 

 is of a dusky fordid green, elegantly variegated with darker tranfverfe lines 5 only 

 there is fbmething of red mingled with the feathers on the middle of the Back, and 

 thole that fpring out of the Shoulders. The Head is paler, not varied with crofs lines, 

 but black ftrokes drawn downward along the (hafts of the feathers. The Sides,Breaff, 

 and Belly are white. Above the Eyes is a white line. The Throat is of a fordid 

 white, the {hafts of the feathers being darker. The three or four quil-feathers next 

 to the body are of the fame colour with the body : The outmoft is dusky, [_ or dark 

 brown] the inner edge of the fecond, about the middle of the feathers length, hath a 

 fpotof white : Of the reft to the tenth the inner Webs in order have larger white 

 fpots. After the tenth the white fpreadeth bey ond the (haft into the other Web of the 

 feather. The tips alfo of the feathers, from the fourteenth to the twentieth, are 

 white. The primary covert-feathers of the Wings, or thofe of the firft row, as well 

 the upper, as the nether, have white tips : Of the upper, thofe efpecially from the 

 tenth to the twentieth : Of the nether, thofe next the body, which indeed are whol- 

 ly white, and not varied with lines; The ridge or bafe of the Wing is white. The 

 feathers of the third row are white almoft to the bottom. But between the third 

 row and the bafts of the Wing is a broad line of brown. The middle feathers of the 

 Tail are of the fame colour with the body : The third on each fide from the two mid- 

 dlemoft have their tips white : The fourth are more white : Of the fifth all the exte- 

 riour Web is white, and a little alfo of the interiour : In the outmoft the white fpreads 

 further into the interiour Web. 



The top of the Bill is of a dusky blackifh colour, the bottom whitifh: The tip a 

 little bent downward : The Eyes hazel-coloured: The Ears great. The Feet of a 

 pale green : The Claws black. l"he outmoft fore-toe joyned at bottom to the middle 

 one by a membrane 5 theback-tpe fmall : The Stomach lefs mufculous than iagranivo- 

 rous birds, in which diffedtedrwe found water-infe&s. 



Thefe are alfo folitary birds, living fingly, except in breeding time, when they fly 

 together by pairs, the Male and his Female. I fuppofe this Bird is the fame with that 

 Gefrer defcribes under the title of Pilvenck£gen, efpecially for that he faith it makes a 

 noife by night, like one crying or lamenting, which thing ( as we have been informed) 

 is true of our bird. Only it feems to be fomething lefler, and of a darker colour above. 

 See Aldrovaxd, tom.%, £.48$. They 



