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Older that every obferver miglit be enabled to form his own judgment 

 as to the relative coiii)e61;ioi-! of the two birds, and it is, we may be 

 allowed to conceive, from the publicity thus afforded them, that an 

 opinion has arifen of the Common Knot and the Iceland Sandpiper^ 

 being only the winter and fummer drefs of the fame bird. 



In a future plate we fliall fubmit a portrait of the rufous bellied 

 Knot, above defcribed, to the attention of our readers ; together with 

 fuch information as we may conceive likely to elucidate the obfcurity 

 that feems to prevail refpefting them. 



Length of the original fpecimen of the Red Sandpiper eleven 

 inphes ; of the one recently captured about ten inches. 



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