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BRITISH BIRDS. 
THE RED SANDPIPER. 
f Tringa Islandlca*) 
The above figure and description are taken from the 
stuffed specimen of a bird shot at Sunderland, in Ja- 
nuary of the severe winter of 1814, and also present- 
ed to this work by Mr Bullock, of the London Mu- 
seum. The bill is rather thick at the base, black, 
grooved on both mandibles, and about an inch and a 
half long from the tip to the brow, whence, over the 
head and down the hinder part of the neck, it is streak- 
ed with rufous and dark brown ; between the bill and 
the eyes, and the auriculars, it is spotted and streaked 
with the same colours ; the shoulders, back, and sca- 
pulars are black, edged, tipped, and spotted with va- 
rious shades of rufous, yellow, and dingy white, and 
the tertials are prettily indented with the same colours; 
the greater coverts are ash colour, tipped with white ; 
