QUEBEC TRINGA. 
(Tringa Canadensis.) 
Tr. cinereo'ohscura, jugulo c 'merasccnte, nbdomine alio later ibus 
maculato, pedibus Jiavis. 
Obscure-asliy Triiiga, with thejugulum ashy, the abdomen white, 
its sides spotted, the legs yellow. 
Tringa Canadensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. Ixv. 
Quebec Sandpiper. Lath. Syn. Sup. 2. 313. 
Described by Dr. Latham from a specimen brought 
from Quebec by General Davies : " Size of the Song 
Thrush : length nine inches : beak nearly one inch 
and a half long, and slender j the base reddish, the 
rest of its length black : general colour of the plu- 
mage dusky-plumbeous ash-colour : the feathers on 
the back margined with ash-colour ; of the wing- 
coverts and breast with greyish-white : the three first 
quills dusky, with white shafts ; three of the inner 
ones just fringed with white at the tips; the two or 
three next white, marked with ash-colour on the 
outer web; then follow two or three almost wholly 
white ; the rest plain dusky : the four middle tail- 
feathers dusky, the others pale-ash, fringed at the 
edges and tips with white : between the beak and 
eye, and the chin, dusky white, mottled : fore part 
of the neck plain ash-colour : belly white ; sides of 
it, close to the wings, marked with a few dusky spots : 
the thighs are (contrary to the usual nature of the 
genus) covered with feathers quite to the knees, and 
