colour: rump and tail rufous white, the laft crofted with a black
band at the tip : the thighs naked for the greateft part of their
length : legs red.
Native place uncertain.
CAYENNE S.
Description.
Place.
Le Vanneau armé de Cayenne, -Buf. Oif viii. p. 66.—-Pi. EnL 836.
Vanneau, Defer. Surin* ii. p. 193-
T ES S than our Lapwing: length eight inches and a half. The
bill is red, three quarters of an inch long, with the tip black:
the forehead and throat are black : the middle of the crown afh-
colour : hind head brown ; from it fpring five or fix blackifli
long feathers, forming a creft not unlike that of the Lapwing : the
neck is dufky white : on the bread: a broad band of black : belly
and vent white : the back of a greenilh purple : the outfide of
the wing, for fome way from the fhoulder, white ; near the bend
a fhort, brown, fharp fpur, rather bent : the bafe half of the tail
is white ; the end half black ; the tip fringed with white : legs
reddifh : toes of moderate length : claws black.
Inhabits Cayenne. Met with commonly in the marlhyJav annas,
and lives on infefls.
6.
LOUISIANE S.
Le Vanneau arme de la LouHiane, Br if. Orn. v. p. 114. 7. pi. 8. fig. 2.—
Buf. Oif. vii. p. 65.— PI. Eut. 8^5.
Armed Sandpiper, Arä. Zool. N° 395*
Description. C 1Z E of the Lapwing: length eleven inches. Bill orange; at
the bafe of it a naked fkin of the fame colour, which rifes up
on the forehead, takes in the eyes, and hangs on each fide of the
mandible like a "wattle: the top of the head is black : the reft of
the
the upper parts grey brown : the under yellowifh white : at the
bend of the wing a fharp fpur: quills chiefly black, mixed more
or lefs with grey: tail yellowilh white, tipped with black : ■ legs
red : claws black.
Inhabits Louifiana. Place.
Parra Dominica, Lin. Syjl. i- p. 259. 1.
Le Vanneau armé de St. Domingue, Brif. Orn. v. p. 118. 8.
6.
VAR; A.
O I Z E of the laft. Bill yellow, the bafe of it furrounded with a
yellow fkin, as in that bird: the head and upper parts pale
yellow : the under yellowifh white, inclining to rofe-colour : tail
as the back, but the fide feathers incline to rofe-colour on the
D escription.
inner webs : legs yellow.
Inhabits feveral of the warmer parts of America and St. Domingo* Place«
Vanneau armé de Goa, PI. Enl. 807►
«------ — ------des Indes, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 64.
TGOA
S.
T E N G T H thirteen inches. Bill dufky : head and neck black:
before the eye, and round it, carunculated and red : from the
back part of the eye a ftripe of white, pafling down on each fide
the neck, and communicating with the breaft, which, as well as
the under parts of the body, is white : the back and wing coverts
are rufous brown : greater coverts white: quills black: the bafe
of the tail for one third is white, the middle blade, and the end
brown : legs yellow : it has four toes,, all of a moderate length a
on the fore part of the wing, near the joint, is a fhort fharp fpur.
Description-«
This came from. Goa. Place.
Parra