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Chap. XII. 

 The North-Country Dunlin of Mr. Johnfon. 



IT is about the bignefsof the Jac^Snipe ovjudcoc^ hath a (freight, channell'd, 

 black Bill, a little broader at the end, oblong Nofthrils, a blackifh Tongue' 

 The Throat and Breaft white, fpotted with black. The middle of the Belly is ' 

 blackifh, waved with white lines. The lower Belly, and feathers under the 

 Tail white. All the upper fide is red, every where fpotted with pretty great black 

 fpots with a little white. Yet the Wings from a * grey incline to a brown or dusky * ~ (0 

 colour- The Legs and Feet are of a f competent length, and black. The back-toe + U n iufau 

 the fhorteft. The Tail confifts of twelve feathers, of which the two middlemoft are * *• rather *of 

 dusky [brown ] with one or two red fpots : the reft from brown incline to white. the ,on 8 cft * 

 It gets its food out of the mud. 



The Rotknujfel or Gdllinult melampus of Gefaer and Aldrovnnd differs not much 

 from this bird. 



Chap. XIII. $. t 



The Stint, which the French call the Sea-Lark : Schoeniclos feu Junco Bellonii : 

 An Cinclus prior Attroy ? 



IT is equal to the common Lar^, or but very little lefs : For the (hape of its bo- 

 dy like to a Snipe. From Bill to Feet eight inches and an half long. Its Bill is 

 (freight, (lender, black, an inch and half long, and like to a Snipes bill. The 

 Tongue extended to the end of the Bill. The Feet dusky or blackifh, with a 

 tincture of green. The toes not joyned by any membrane. The back-toe fmall. The 

 colour of the upper fide of the body, excepting the prime feathers of the Wings,and 

 firft row of coverts, is grey, or cinereous, with black fpots, or lines in the middle 

 of each fingle feather. The feathers in the middle of the Back and upper fide of the 

 Wings have a tincture of red. [ Ux.Willughby defcribes it a little differently thus : 

 The middle parts of the feathers on the Head are black, the edges red or ruflet. The 

 Neck is more of an afh-colour. The Back-feathers of a * dark purple, with reddifh * or black 

 afh-coloured edges. Thofe on the Rump of a lighter red, with black lines or ffroaks w , h j?v a P Ur P Ie 

 down their (hafts. ] g,ofs ' 



The Wings are long, and when folded up reaching to the end of the Tail. The 

 quil-feathers of each Wing twenty four, of a dusky colour as far as they appear above 

 the covert-feathers, for their bottoms are white, and the interiour in order gradually 

 more than the exteriour to the nineteenth, which is almoft wholly white. [ Mr. Wit- 

 Inghby in the bird he defcribed obferved the tips of the fecond row of Wing-feathers 

 to have been alfb white, in the fame proportion as in the Sanderling, making together 

 a white line crofs the Wing, yet narrower than in that. The exteriour edges of the 

 fifth, counting from trie outmoft, and of the fubfequent to the eleventh are white. 

 The four next the body are wholly dusky, and by little and little ffreightned into 

 (harp points,and when the Wing is clofed reach almoft to the end of the Tail. The Tail 

 is fcarce two inches long, not forked, made up of twelve feathers, of which the two' 

 middlemoft are longer than the reft, fharper pointed alfo, and darker-coloured. All 

 the reft are of a pale afh-colour, without any crofs lines or bars, only their outmoft 

 edges whitifh. Alltheunder-fideof the body is white, only the Throat and upper 

 part of the Breaft clouded a little with dark-coloured fpots. Mr. WiUughbj obferved 

 fmall brown fpots under the Wings, and the Throat to be of an afh-colour, thick-fe 

 with black fpots, down fometimestothe Breaft. 



The Liver divided into two Lobes^ of which the right is much the bigger. The 

 Stomach mufculous. 



Thefe Birds live about the Sea-fhores, and fly together in flocks. At Weftckficr 

 they call them Purres. 



BeUonius his defcription of his Junco agrees in all points with this bird. His figure 

 reprefents the Bill too (hort. The Bill of the Cinclus alfo in Aldrovands figure is 

 drawn too fhort. R r §. II; 



