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BRITISH BIRDS. 
GREENWICH SANDPIPER. 
Grenon}icenfis, 
Size of the Redfhank : weight nearly eight 
ounces : length twelve inches and a half. Bill an 
inch and a half long, black : crown of the head 
reddifh brown, flreaked with black : nape, cheeks, 
and neck, afh-colour; the middle of the feathers 
dulky down the fhaft : lower part of the neck and 
back black ; the feathers margined on the fides 
with pale ferruginous, and fome of thofe of the 
back at the tips alfo : chin nearly white : fore part 
of the neck very pale afli-colour, as far as the breafl, 
which is of a dulky white : belly, fides, vent, and 
upper tail coverts on each fide, and the whole of the 
under ones, white : lelfer wing coverts alh-colour ; 
the greater, the fame, obfcurely margined with 
pale ferruginous ; greatell tipped with white ; un- 
der wing coverts pure white : prime quills dulky, 
the lhafts more or lefs white ; fecondaries and fca- 
pulars nearly the colour of the back ; the feconda- 
ries and primaries very little differing in length : 
the lower part of the back, rump, and middle of 
the tail coverts, alh-colour : tail a little rounded at 
the end, brownilh alh-colour, fomewhat mottled 
with brownilh near the tips, and fringed near to 
the end with pale ferruginous : legs dulky olive 
green, bare an inch above the knee : the outer and 
