47 ^ The Hijiory of A N I M A L S. 
long, and are flender, and of a pale olive colour ; the toes are long, and the claws 
black, and not very fhort. 
It is a native of mod parts of the North of Europe; we have it in England but it 
is not very frequent with us. It flies fingly, except at the time of breeding when 
they are ufually feen in pairs. Mod of the writers on birds have defcribed it. Gefner 
calls it Gallinula aquatica hypoleucos, and, in another place, he makes it a Motacilla - 
Aldrovand calls it Gallinula hypoleucos; Willughby and Ray, Tringa minor ; the 
Italians call it Becaffine; and our people in Yorkftiire, and fome other places' the 
Sandpiper. r * 
Tringa crijla dependents, pe&ore nigro. 
The black-breajled Tringa, with a hanging creft . 
Were this fpecies lefs common among us, it would be greatly efteemed for it’s beau¬ 
ty j it is about the fize of the commom pigeon : the head is fmall, but very beautiful. 
a little deprefied on the crown, but not at all at the fides: the eyes are bright and 
piercing, but they are not large ; the beak is moderately long, and the noftrils are very 
confpicuous in it. 3 
The head is very elegantly variegated ; the fides of it are white, but there runs a 
black line along them by the eyes to the very hinder part of the head, and the hin¬ 
der part of it is ornamented with a beautiful creft, compofed of twenty long and 
flender feathers, and hanging over the hinder part of the neck : the whole throat, to 
the breaft, is of a coal-black ; the lower part of the breaft, and the whole belly/are 
white : the back, and the long feathers of the fhoulders, which fall down along the 
fides, are all of a beautiful Aiming green ; and on each fide, near the wings, there is 
an elegant fpot of purple: the legs are long, flender, and red, fometimes brown ; the 
hinder toe is very inconfiderable, the others are moderately long ; the outer toe of 
each foot is connected by a membrane to the middle one, for a confiderable way. 
This is very frequent in our fen countries, and the wet places in moft other parts of 
{Europe. All the writers on birds have defcribed it. Bellonius calls it Capra, Capel- 
lus, and Vanellusj Gefner, Vanellysj Aldrovand, Capella five Vanellus j and moft 
others have continued thofe names. 
Tringa roftro nigro, baji rubra, pedibus coccineis . 
The red-legged Tringa, with a black beak red at 
the bafe . 
This is about the fize of the fieldfare, and is efteemed a delicate bird at our ta¬ 
bles : the head is fmall and flatted on the crown: the eyes are remarkably fmall, but 
they have a very piercing afped; the ears are open and large, and the beak is mode¬ 
rately long, fmooth, thickeft at the bafe, and fmaller all the way to the extremity * 
fmooth all over, and red toward it’s infertion at the head, but black every-where 
elfe. 
The head is of a deep iron grey, fpotted irregularly with black ; the back, fhoul¬ 
ders, fides, and upper part of the wings, are alfo of the fame colour, and variegated in 
the fame manner: the breaft is white, but variegated with fpots of black $ the belly 
is of a pure white, without any variegation : the legs are moderately long ; they are 
flender, and of a bright red : the toes are long, flender, and red, and the claws 
black. 
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We have this in England, and it is common alfo to moft other parts of Europe* 
The authors who have written on birds have all defcribed it, and almoft univerfaliy, 
under the fame name Totanus. 
3Ci)e scotamts, 
o? ©otitwt. 
*I’ringa 
