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STREAKED THING A. 
(Tringa virgata.) 
Tr. Juaca albo marginata, subtiis alba, scapularibus maculis Jer- 
rugineis, capite colloque albis fusco longitudinaliter striatis. 
Bi'own Tringa margined with wliite^ beneath white^ the sca- 
pulars spotted with ferruginous, the head and neck white lon- 
gitudinally striped with brown. 
Tringa virgata. Gmel. Sj/st. Nat. 1. 671. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 735. 
Sti'eaked Sandpiper. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 180. 
The Streaked Tringa is about the size of the 
Common Snipe : its beak is dusky, about an inch 
and a quarter iong : its head and neck are white, 
longitudinally streaked with dusky : the back is dusky, 
the feathers edged with white : the scapulars are 
dusky, edged and varied with rust-colour : the wing- 
coverts are cinereous : the quills are dusky : the lower 
part of the back and tail are dusky cinereous: the 
upper tail-coverts and all the under parts of the body 
are white : the sides are spotted with dusky : legs 
dusky. Inhabits Sandwich Sound. 
BOREAL TRINGA. 
(Tringa borealis.) 
Tr. cincrca, collo lutcribus pectoreque pallidiore undulatis, super- 
ciliis guld tcclricibus caudce corporeqnc sublus albis 
