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TRINGINiE. MACHETES. 
larged, but a little decurved, at the end ; tail graduated ; tar- j 
sus eight-twelfths long ; bill dusky and feet greenish-brown. 
Plumage in winter deep brown above, each feather with a 
blackish-brown streak ; the fore part of the neck and a por- 
tion of the breast reddish-grey ; the throat and lower parts j 
white ; the middle tail-coverts dusky, the lateral white ; the 
middle tail-feathers greyish-brown, the rest pale grey, the 
outer white externally. In summer the feathers of the upper 
parts deep black, margined with red ; the forehead and fore 
part of the neck reddish-grey, finely streaked with black ; the 
throat and lower parts white ; the lateral tail-feathers white, '( 
the medial black edged with red. Young with the upper 
parts variegated with greyish-brown and yellowish-grey, the 
feathers being edged with the latter colour, within which is | 
a band of dusky ; a white streak over the eye ; the tail-feathers 
tipped with reddish, except the outer ; the lower part of the 
neck anteriorly reddish-grey. 
Male, 5^, 11 J, 3y§, y%, y^-, y^-, y^-. F cm ale, 6. 
This species is distinguished from Tringa minuta by being 
somewhat smaller, by having the tarsus much shorter, and 
the tail somewhat wedge-shaped at the end, in place of being j 
doubly emarginate. It has been obtained in the counties of 
Devon, Sussex, and Norfolk; and on the Continent is pretty 
generally dispersed. 
Tringa Temminckii, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. ii. 622. — 
Tringa Temminckii, Temminck’s Sandpiper, MacGillivray, 
Brit. Birds, iv. 
GENUS XCVI. MACHETES. BUFF. 
The bird known in Britain by the name of Buff, Tringa 
pugnax of Linnaeus, has been separated from the Tringae by 
Cuvier to form a genus by itself, bearing the name of 
Machetes or Fighter, in allusion to the combative propensity 
of the males during the breeding season. The bill differs 
in no appreciable degree from that of Tringa cinerea ; the 
general form approaches to that of the genus Limosa ; the 
legs, and especially the toes, are longer than in Tringa, and 
the latter indicate some approach to the Snipes. Bill scarcely 
longer than the head, straight, slender, soft, and somewhat 
flexible ; upper mandible with the ridge convex, flattened 
toward the end, the tip slightly enlarged, obtuse, the nasal 
groove extending nearly to the end ; lower mandible with 
