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COMMON OYSTERCATCHER. 



(Haematopus Ostralegus.) 



Hje, niger, corpore subtus Jascia gulari et alarum uropygio c<tU' 



ddque basi albis. 

 Black Oystercatcher, with the body beneath, a fascia on the 



throat and wings, the rump, and base of the tail, white. 

 Haematopus Ostralegus. Linn, Syst. Nat. 1 . 257. — Linn. Faun. 



Suec. \g2.~Gmel. Syst, Nat. I, 6g4.—Rau, Syn, 105. a. 7. — 



Lath, Ind, Orn. ^51. 1. — Leach, Cat, Brit, Mus, p, 28. 

 Ostraiega, seuPica Maritima. Briss, Orn. 5. 38. 3, 2. 

 L'Huitrier. Buff. Ois, 8. 119.^9/. 9. — Buff, PI. Enl, 929. 

 Huitrier. Temm, Man, d'Orni. 340. 



Sea Pie, Pied Oystercatcher. Penn, Brit. Zool. 2, 213. pi. ^4, 

 — Penn, Arct. Zool, 2. 400. — Will, Ang. 297.— -Alb. \,pl. 78. 

 — Catesb, Carol. 1. pi. Qd.^Hayes. Brit. Birds, pi, 12. — 

 Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 2ig.pl. 84,— Letv. Brit, Birds. 5.pL 188. — 

 —Wale, Syn. 2. pi. i66.—Don. Brit. Birds. 3. pi. 62.—Pult, 

 Cat. Dors. p. 15. — Beuo. Brit. Birds. 2. 7. — Mont. Orn, Diet, 

 2. — Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup, — Lodo. Faun. Orcud. p. 91. — Wills, 

 Amer, Orn. 8. 15. pi, Ixiv.y^ 2. 



This species has the head, neck, upper part of 

 the breast, back, wings, and tip of the tail, of a 

 deep black : the rump, base of the tail and of the 

 quills, a transverse stripe on the wings, and the 

 whole of the under parts of the body, of a pure 

 w^hite : the beak and circle round the eyes of a 

 bright orange : the irides crimson : the feet fine 

 red : the female similar. The young have the 

 plumage shaded and bordered with brown in those 

 parts that are black in the adult : the white is of a 

 dirty hue : the beak and circle round the eyes are 



