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vVSn-COLOL'RED SANDPIPER. 
long, black : crown and upper part of the back dusky, 
streaked with red : cheeks cinereous, streaked with 
black : neck and breast cinereous, mixed with rust- 
colour, and marked with obscure dusky spots : belly 
white : thighs spotted with black : lesser wing-coverts 
ash-coloured ; greater dusky, edged with brown : 
quills dusky ; the secondaries tipped with white : 
lower part of the back white, spotted with black : tail 
barred black and white ; tip reddish ; legs greenish : 
the toes bordered by a narrow plain membrane. Ob- 
served in Chateaux Bay, on the coast of Labrador, 
in September. Are perpetually nodding their heads." 
ASH-COLOURED SANDPIPER. 
(Totanus incanus.) 
To. cinereiis, jugulo abdoiniiic medio maculaqne ante ocidus albis, 
pedibiis Jlavo-virescentibus. 
Ash -coloured Sandpiper, with the tliroat, middle of the abdomen, 
and spot before the eyes white, the legs of a greenish yellow, 
Scolopax incana. Gmel. Sijst. Nat. 1. 658. Laih. Lid. Orn. 2. 
724. 
Ash-coloured Snipe. Lath. Gen. Sijn. 5. 134. 
Described by Latham from a specimen formerly 
in the collection of the late Sir Joseph Banks. " Its 
length was eleven inches : beak more than an inch 
and a half long, straight, except at the tip, where it 
is a trifle bent; colour black : upper part of the head, 
neck, and body, ash-colour : between tlie beak and 
