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WHITE-WINGED TRINGA. 
(Tringa leucoptera.) 
TR.fHsca,corpore subtus sujKrciliis uropygioque rujis, caiida rufct 
maculatd, huyneris albis. 
Brown Tringa, with the body beneath, the eyelids, and rump, red, 
the tail spotted with red, the shoulders white. 
Tringa leucoptera. Gmcl. Si/st. Nat. I. 678. Lath. Ind. Orn. 
2. 731. 
White-winged Sandpiper. Lath. Gen. Syn, 5. 172. pi. 82. 
" This bird," says Latham, *' is a trifle bigger 
than the Purre : length eight inches and a half : 
beak one inch, cinereous : irides dusky brown : over 
the eye a pale streak : the head, hind part of the 
neck, back, and wings, are brownish-black : lesser 
wing-coverts dusky black : from the bend of the wing 
an oblique streak passes over the wing-coverts ; the 
greater ones mixed ferruginous and black: quills 
black, and reach almost to the end of the tail : the 
throat, breast, belly, and rump are rufous : vent dirty 
yellow : the two middle tail-feathers deep brownish- 
black ; the others barred black and rufous ; the outer 
feathers ashy on the exterior webs : legs dusky green. 
This inhabits Otaheite, near the rivers, and is called 
Torowee : also met with at Eimeo, or York Isle, and 
and is there called Te~te.'* 
" This bird varies. In one specimen which came 
under my view, the crown of the head was dusky ; 
the line over the eye ferruginous ; and a tinge of 
the same was visible throughout the whole of the 
