BRITISH BIRDS. 
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ASH-COLOURED SANDPIPER. 
Tringa Ctnerea. 
This bird weighs between four and five ounces, 
and meafures ten inches in length, and about nine- 
teen in breadth. The whole upper parts of the 
plumage are of a brownifli afh-colour : the head is 
fpotted, and the neck ftreaked with dulky lines : 
the feathers of the back, fcapulars, and wing co- 
verts, are elegantly marked or bordered on their 
ridges and tips, with two narrow lines of dull white, 
and dark brown. Some fpecimens have black fpots 
on the breaft, but moft commonly the whole under 
parts are pure white : the tail is cinereous, edged 
with white, and its coverts are barred with black : 
legs dirty green ; toes edged with a fine narrow fcal- 
lopped membrane. 
The Afh-coloured Sandpiper, it is faid, breeds in 
the northern parts of both Europe and America. 
Pennant fays they appear in vaft flocks on the fliores 
of Flintfliire in the winter feafon ; and Latham, that 
they are feen in vafl; numbers on the Seal-Iflands, 
near Chateaux Bay ; and alfo that they breed and 
remain the whole fummer at Hudfon’s Bay, where 
they are called by the natives Safqua pifqua nijhijh. 
