DUSKY SANDPIPER. 
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Scolopax fusca. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 243. G7nel. Syst. Nat. 1 . 657. 
Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 724. 
Limosa fusca. Briss. Orn. 5. 27G. pi. 23. f. 4. 
La Barge brune. Buf. Ois. 7. 508. Buff. PI. Enl. 875. 
Dusky Snipe. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5, 155. 
Winter Plumage. — Scolopax curonica. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 669. 
Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 724. 
Scolopax Cantabrigiensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 668. Lath. Ltd. 
Orn. 2. 721. 
Cambridge Godwit. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 185. Lath. Gen. Syn. 
5. 146. Letv. Brit. Birds, 4. pi. 36. Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. 
Beiv. Brit. Birds, 2. 84. 
Young. — Scolopax Totauus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 665. Lath. 
Ind. Orn. 2.721. 
Totanus alter. Raii, Syn. 106. 
Barker. Albin. Birds, 2. pi. 71. 
Spotted Snipe. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 148. Lens. Brit. Birds, 4. 
pi. 164. Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. and Sup. with Jig. Beiv. Brit. 
Birds, 2. pi. 88. 
Spotted Redshank. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 186. 
Variety. — Tringa atra. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 673. Lath. Lid. 
Orn. 2. 738. 
As usual in this family of birds, this species has 
received various appellations, according to the state 
of its plumage at different periods of the year : during 
the summer it has all the upper parts of the body 
and its forehead dusky ; the feathers on its back, on 
the wing-coverts, and scapulars, are marked on the 
edges of their webs with small white spots, and tipped 
with a cross of the same colour : the under parts are 
greyish-ash, with the feathers of the breast and belly 
tipped with a white cross : the lower belly and tail- 
coverts are transversely striped with cinereous-black 
and white : the tail-feathers are ashy-black, with small 
white dashes on the margins of the webs, reaching to 
