Place. Inhabits King George’s Sound. In the colle&ion of Sir Jo-fepb
Banks.
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D e s c r i p t io n.
Place.
T r in g a glareola, Faun. Sate. N° 184.
Wood Sandpiper, Ar3 . Zool. p. 482. G .
H IS is faid to equal a Starling in fize. Back brown, dotted
with white: rump and belly white : quills brown; the lhafc
of the firft white: fecondaries white at the tips : tail banded
brown and white j the outer feathers leaft brown in them.
Inhabits the moift woods of Sweden.
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D escrip tion.
P la c e .
Varieties.
^ T R I F L E bigger than the Purre : length eight inches and a
half. Bill one inch, cinereous : irides dufky brown : over
the eye a pale ftreak : -the head, hind part of the neck, back, and
wings, are brownilh black : lefler wing coverts dufky black : from
the bend of the wing an oblique ftreak pafiês over the wing coverts
; the greater ones mixed ferruginous and black : quills
black, and reach almoft to the end of the tail : the throat, breaft,
belly, and rump, are rufous: vent dirty yellow : the two middle
tail feathers deep blackilh brown ; the others barred black and
rufous ; the outer feathers only on the exterior webs : legs dufky
green.
This inhabits Otaheite, near the rivers, and is called Torowé.
Alfo met with at Eimeo, or York IJle, and is there called Te-te.
This bird varies. In one fpecimen which came under my view,
the crown of the head was dufky : the line over the eye ferruginous
; and a tinge of the fame was vifible throughout the whole
of the plumage : bill and legs yellowifti.
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In another all the lefler wing coverts were white : four of the pL. LX X X I I .
middle tail feathers plain; the others barred as ufual : but all
had the ftreak over the eye.
T r in g a maritima, Brun. N ° 182.—Muller, N° 206.—Leems Lap. N ° 254.
Selninger Sandpiper, Ar3 . Zool. p . 480'. C .
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C I Z E of a Starling. Upper parts varied with grey and black :
middle of the back tinged with violet: fore part of the neck
dufky : under part of the body white : tail dufky : the four outer
feathers fhorteft, and edged with white : legs yellow.
D e s c r i p t io n .
Inhabits Norway and Iceland. Lives about the fea fhores, and
emits a piping note.
P l a c e .
T r in g a undata, Brun. Orn. p. 55. N ° 183.
Waved Sandpiper, Artt. Zool. p . 481. E.
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^■ 'j.ENERAL colour dufky, undulated with luteous and white:
wing coverts and fecondaries tipped with white: rump
white : tail cinereous, and margined with black at the tip : the
firft prime quill has a white fhaft.
D e scrip tion.
Inhabits Denmark and-Norway. P l a c e .
T r in g a roftro brevi nigro, tota dilute cinerea, Muller, N ° 205.
Uniform Sandpiper, Ar£l. Zool. p. 482. H.
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8J 3 H I S fpecies has a fhort black bill; and the whole of the
plumage of an uniform pale alh-colour.
D escrip tion.
Inhabits Iceland. P la c e .
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