BRITISH BIRDSo 
SS9 
PURRE. 
{Trlnga Cinclus^ Lin. — L^Alouette de Mer, Buff.) 
In the north of England thefe birds are called 
Stints, in other parts, the Leaf!: Snipe, Ox-Bird, 
Ox-Eye, Bull’s-Eye, Sea-Lark, and Wagtail : they 
generally meafure about feven inches and a half 
in length, and in breadth about fourteen ; but fome- 
times they weigh and meafure rather more. The 
bill is black, grooved on the fides of the upper 
mandible, and about an inch and a quarter in length : 
tongue of nearly the fame length, fharp and hard at 
the point : a whitilh line runs from the brow over 
each eye, and a brownifli one from the fides of the 
mouth to the eyes, and over the cheeks : the fore 
part of the neck is pale afh-colour, mottled with 
brown : the head, hinder part of the neck, upper 
part of the back, and fcapulars, are brownifh afh- 
colourj but the middle of the feathers on thefe parts 
