BAUTRAil S SANDPIPER. 
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j, and such like places. They run with great 
th^' ®®“ietimes spreading their tail, and dropping 
"^’•Rgs, as birds do who wish to decoy you from 
^ ®ir nest ; when they alight, they remain fixed, stand 
not^ *''®ct, and have two or three sharp whistling 
pi mount to fly. They are remarkable 
Po^”*'i ^**'‘**> weighing upwards of three quarters of a 
L.,") ’ '^heir flesh is superior, in point of delicacy, 
'vh' flavour, to any other of the tribe with 
i®h 1 am acquainted. 
.Ibis species is twelve inches long, and twenty-one 
bt downwards, and wrinkled at the base, the upper 
^^'"‘‘We, black on its ridge, the lower, as well as the 
th^* bt the iq)per, of a fine yellow; front, stripe over 
“f eye, neck, and breast, pale ferruginous, marked 
of tu st»‘eahs of black, which, on the lower part 
bla I* ''’■east, assume the form of an-ow heads ; crown, 
oS® '> the plumage slightly skirted with whitish ; chin, 
hin'i' ’■'‘b by®> whole belly, and vent, pure white ; 
str'i**b“‘’> “bh neck above, ferruginous, minutely 
f bbked with black ; back and scajuxlars, black, the 
**^’Sbtly skirted with ferruginous, the latter, 
'.‘b vvhite ; tertials, black, bordered u'ith white ; 
J ‘“bries, plain black ; shaft of the exterior quill. 
So inner vane, elegantly pectinated with white ; 
,J;®bdaries, pale brown, spotted on their outer vanes, 
du-p *’*b(!k, and tipt with ndiite ; greater coverts, 
hla a ’ with pale ferruginous, and spotted with 
hr ii’ coverts, pale ferruginous, each feather 
j, bbdly bordered with white, within which is a con- 
. kric semicircle of black; rump, and tail-coverts, 
bbp brown black, slightly bordered with white ; tail, 
(. PbJ'‘bg, of a pale brown orange colour, beautifully 
du p with black, the middle feathers centred with 
y ; legs, yellow, tinged with green ; the outer toe 
Red to the middle by a membrane ; lining of the 
of*.?*’ b^b^bbtly barred with black and white ; ins of 
the eye, dark, or blue black, eye, very large. The 
bbfle and female are nearly alike- 
