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BRITISH BIRDS. 
COMMON SANDPIPER. 
{Tringa hypoleucos, Lin. — La Gulgnette, BufF.) 
This bird weighs about two ounces, and mea=^ 
fures feven inches and a half in length. The bill is 
about an inch long, black at the tip, fading into 
pale brown towards the bafe. The head, andliinder 
part of the neck, are brownifh afli, ftreaked down- 
wards with dark narrow lines : the throat is white, 
and a flreak of the fame colour furrounds and is ex- 
tended over each eye : the cheeks and auriculars 
are (freaked with brown : the fore part of the neck 
to the bread is white, mottled and dreaked with 
fpots and lines of a brown colour, pointing down- 
wards : in fome the bread is plain white : belly 
and vent white. The ground colour of all the up- 
per parts of the plumage is a(h, blended with glolfy 
