BIRDS. GRALL/E. 38. Tringa. 61 



Dunlin. Lewin t,ijj. Walcot.t. 151. 



Length 8 inches : extent 15 : weight an ounce and a half. 



iris dusky : head and nape with dusky ftreaks : lores brown, with 

 a white stripe over them : quills blackish, the inner-ones more or 

 lefs whitish on the inner-webs : vent with a few dusky streaks : 2 

 middle tail-feathers dusky edged with white, 



198. T. pusilla. Bill and legs dusky : brown with black- 

 ish spots, beneath dirty white : quills dusky tipt with 

 white : outmost tail-feathers with a white shaft : 

 rump variegated. 



Little Sandpiper. Penn. Gen. of birds, t. 12. Lewin t. 176. 



length barely 6 inches : extent 12 : weight 6 drachms. 



Bill black at the point '.plumage of the upper-parts brown, edged 

 with blackish and pale rufous : greater covert s dusky tipt with 

 white : breast and belly dirty white : tail dusky with paler edges : 

 legs blackish. 



199. T.flavipes. Base of the bill and legs yellow : above 

 grey-brown with dusky spots, beneath and rump 

 white : beneath the spurious wings a white patch. 



Yellow-legged Sandpiper. Montague ornith. Diet, append. 



Length 11 inches and a half. Bill black towards the point: iris 

 light yellow : head and neck cinereous with dusky streaks : primary 

 quills dusky, the first with a white shaft ; secondaries white on the 

 lower half ; tail grey brown, the under-coverts with dusky specks: 

 legs orange-yellow. 



200. X. islandica. Bill and legs brown : above brown 

 with dusky and grey variations, beneath ferruginous: 

 secondary wing-coverts edged with white. 



Red Sandpiper. Lewin t. 178. Br. Zool. t. 72. 



2. Breast reddish-brown, mixed with dusky : belly and vent 

 white. Aberdeen Sandpiper. Brit. Zaol.n. 203. 



Length 10 inches. Bill a little bent at the point : crown fpotted 

 black and ferruginous : lesser wing-coverts cinereous : quills dusky, 

 the fecondaries tipt with white : breast and belly with a few black isk 

 fpots : 2 middle tail-feathers dusky, the rest cinereous. 



201. T\ Canutus. Above grey with dusky-grey spots, be- 

 neath white with dark spots : rump white with dusky- 

 crescents : primary quill-feathers serrate : outmost 

 tail-feather whitish, immaculate. 



Knot. Lewin t. 197. Flor. Scot. 1. p. 34. t. 3, Edw. t. 276, 

 Length 9 inches : extent 20 : weight 4 oz. and a half. 

 Bill smooth, dusky-grey; iris hazel: lores dusky: keadanA 

 neck grey with obfeure dusky lines : wings with a white bar, the 

 greater quills with white shafts : (ail ash-colour, the outmost fea- 

 thers whitish : /^bluish-grey, 



202. T. Interpret. Legs red : body variegated black, 

 white, and ferruginous : fore- part of the neck black : 

 chin, breast and belly white. 



Turnstone, Sea Dottrel. Lewin t. 1S0. ffalcot *,< 152. Fl. Scot. t. 3, 



2. Body grey : breast black ; tail blackish, white at the bafe. 

 Br. Zool. n. 199. Wale. t. 152. 



Length 9 inches : extent 16 inches : weight about 4 ounces. 

 Bill black, a little turned upwards : iri's hazel : front white : head 

 mostly with brown fpots: upper-part of the neck white ; cheeks and 

 lores black : over the eyes a white stripe : breast crossed oh the 

 upper part by a broad black band : quills dusky, the fecondaries 

 iipt with white : upper tail-coverts white with a black band : taij 

 black, tipt with white except the 2 middle-feathers : legs orange, 

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