474 Hiftory of A N I M A L S. 
an elegant manner, with fpots of a yellowifh-grey : the back is grey, with fpots of a 
deeper and a paler brown ; the Tides are grey, and are not fpotted at all 
The wings are moderately large *, the long feathers are black, variegated more or 
lefs with white, but none of them very much fo : the tail feathers are of a fine, deep, 
fhining black, only that they are white at the bafe, and the covering feathers, as well 
as the rump, are alfo white: the legs are long and flender, they are black; the toes 
are four, they are long and divided ; the claws are robud. 
This is a native of the northern parts of Europe; we have it not in England, 
Only Linnasus has defcribed it. 
T R I N G A. 
T H E beak of the Tringa is of a cylindric figure, obtufe at the extremity, and 
in length about equal to the toes: the feet have each four toes, and they are 
connected. 
* 
Tringa facie granulata , rojlro pedibufqne rubris . 
The Tringa , with a granulated face , and with 3Zl)t JSttfF* 
a red beak and legs. 
This is about the bignefs of the common jackdaw : the head is moderately large, 
round, and well covered with feathers, except at the anterior part, where it is naked, 
but the fkin is elegantly granulated with fmall red tubercles difpofed regularly and 
clofely over it: the eyes are large ; their afpedt bright and piercing, and their iris of a 
bright hazel colour: the beak is moderately long, and obtufe at the end; it is of a 
fine bright red at the bafe, fometimes all over, but ufually it is black toward the ex¬ 
tremity : the upper chap is a little longer than the under, and the tongue is extended 
to the very tip of the beak. 
The male has fuch a variety of colouring, that it is fcarce poffible to give any re¬ 
gular defcription of it; when they are firit arrived at their full growth, there are no 
two of them alike, but, after the fird moulting or calling of their feathers, they be¬ 
come much more uniform. 
The head is of a brownifh-grey, fpotted with black; the neck is grey ; the back 
and the long feathers which grow from the fhoulders, and fall down the tides, are alfo 
grey, and are variegated with fpots and clouds of black and of white: the throat is 
variegated with white and grey ; the bread; and belly are altogether white. 
The wings are moderately large; the principal feathers of them are, in generaj, 
black, but ioriie of the inner ones are variegated with a little white: the covering 
feathers of the wings are variegated with grey, white, and black: the tail is about an 
inch an half in length, and is brown, but the extremities of the feathers are whitifh. 
Thus far the males and females are alike, except that the females are fomewhat fmaller; 
but the male is didinguifhed by a kind of collar of long and narrow feathers round his 
neck; this in fome is white, in fome black, in fome yellow, and in others grey, and 
fometimes is of a fine fhining bluifh-black, and is then mod elegant of all. 
The females of this fpecies are as peaceable as thofe of other birds, but the males 
are eternally fighting; they are fatted up in places clofed every way from the light, and, 
while kept thus in the dark, are peaceable enough ; but, the moment the light is let in, 
they all get to fighting, and the battle never ends till one of them is dead. They are 
frequent in Lincoln (hire, and fome other of our fen countries; they fly in companies, 
and are as quarelfome in their wild date, as when kept for feeding. The fportfmen 
take the advantage of their fighting to draw their nets over them : they are a very de¬ 
licious food, and are greatly edeemed. It is obferved, that, after the breeding time, 
the 
