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VARIEGATED TRINGA. 
bastard wing, quills, and tail black : legs cinereous. 
Inhabits Newfoundland." 
VARIEGATED TRINGA. 
(Tringa variegata,) 
Tr. rostro pedibusque nigris, corpore supra Jiisco nigro rufoque 
variegato subtus albo, pectore nigro maculnto, cauda J'usca. 
Tringa with the beak and legs black, with the body above varie- 
gated with brown, black, and red; beneath white, the breast 
spotted with red, the tail brown. 
Tringa variegata. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 674. Lath. Ind. Orn. 
2. 735. 
Variegated Sandpiper. Lath. Gen. Syn.5. 181. 
Another bird described by Latham, from a spe- 
cimen in the Leverian Museum. ** Beak one inch 
and a half long, and dusky: upper parts of the 
head, neck, and body, variegated with brown, black, 
and rufous : forehead and throat paler : fore part 
of the neck and breast dirty white, longitudinally 
streaked with black j across the breast a dusky-mot- 
tled bar : sides of the body much the same : middle 
of the belly and thighs white : tail short, brown : the 
inner coverts white on the inner webs : legs dusky." 
