BIRDS. GRALL/E. 38. Tringa. 59 



186. T. nigricans. Base of the bill and legs red : head 

 and neck dusky black : back and scapulars purple 

 black, with cinereous edges ; chin and middle of the 

 belly white. 



Purple Sandpiper. Transact. Linn. Soc. 4, p. 40. tab. 2. 

 2. Bill yellow at the bafe. Linn. Trans'. 4. p. 22. t. 1. 



Length 8 inches and a half: extent above 15 : weight 2 oz. & a half. 



Bill black at the point: eyelids whitish : back and shoulders with 

 a purplish tinge : wing-coverts black tipt with white : primary 

 <i<ulh dusky with white shafts and edges; fecondaries paler with 

 white tips, inner-most nearly white : chin whitish : neck and breast 

 dusky with white lines : sides with dusky fpots : middle tail- 

 feathersblack, the outer-ones dark grey, 



181. T, ochropus. Bill dotted at the point: back and 

 scapulars brown with a green gloss, with roundish 

 white spots : chin, belly, and outmost tail-feathers 

 white : legs dull green. 



Green Sandpiper. Lewin t. 171. Linn. Trans, i. p. 130. t. 2. 



Length full 16 inches : extent 18 : weight 3 oz. and a quarter. 



Bill dusky : iris hazel : crown and nape dusky-grey : face dusky j 

 over the eyes a dirty white streak : neck and breast with dusky 

 streaks : sides dusky with angular white lines : wing-coverts brown 

 with a green gloss;: quills dusky : tail-feathers, except the outer* 

 ones, barred with black : the coverts white. 



188. T. Glareola. Bill smooth : above dusky with white- 

 ish spots, beneath white : neck cinereous, 



"Wood Sandpiper. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 482. G. 

 Length 9 inches : weight 2 ounces and a quarter. 



Bill dull green at the bafe, black towards the point : iris dusky • 

 from the bill to the eyes a dusky streak, over which is a white-one; 

 ears dusky : neck ^dusky with grey lines: chin and throat white ; 

 quills black, some of them tipt with white : tail barred black and 

 whitish : Legs long, olive-green. 



189. T. grenovicensis. Variegated with dusky, grey, and 

 pale ferruginous : neck pale grey beneath : belly, 

 vent, and sides of the rump white. 



Greenwich Sandpiper. Lewin t. 181. Walcot. t. 154. 

 Length 12 inches and a half: weight nearly 8 ounces. 

 Bill black : crown reddish-brown with black streaks : cheeks and 

 neck pale grey with dusky shafts : feathers of the back, shoulders, and 

 coverts dusky with pale ferruginous margins : quills dusky, the 

 shafts more or lefs white : tail brownish-grey, clouded and tipt 

 with pale ferruginous : legs dusky-green, 



190. T. cinerea. Grey, with wliitp and dusky crescent- 

 like spots : throat and belly white : rump white with 

 undnlate black bars : tail-feathers edged with white. 



Ash-coloured Sandpiper. Lewin *. 172. Walcot ?. 1.47, 

 Length 10 inches : extent 20 inches : weight 5 ounces. 

 Bill black j head and neck ash-colour fpotted with black • back and 

 shoulders grey, with dirty-white curved marks: outer-quills, dusky, 

 more or less edged with white : breast and sides white fpotted with 

 black : legs dusky-green : toes edged with a narrow finely fcalloped 

 membrane. 



^91 . T. maritima. Variegated dusky ash-colour and grey, 

 beneath white; throat and tail dusky: feathers of 

 the breast fringed with white : 4 lateral tail-feathers 

 edged with white. 



