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STRIATED S.
Description.
Place and
Manners.
Trînga ftriata, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 248. 5.— Muller, N" 194.— Faun. Groin!.
N° 73.
Le Chevalier rayé, Sri/. Orn. v. p. 196. 5. pi. 18. £g, i,— S„f. Oif. yii.
p. 516.— PI. Enl. 827.
Striated Sandpiper, Aril. Zool. N® 383.
g IZ E of a Starling 1 length ten inches and three quarters. Bill
one inch and a half long; the bafe half red, the end black : the
upper part of the body undulated with dulky and cinereous : fore
part of the neck dulky : breaft and belly white : primaries and
fecondaries black, the laft tipped with white : tertials white, with
a ftripe of black : tail black : the feathers on the fide cinereous,
edged with white : legs orange.
Linnæus fays, the rump and tail are white ; the laft fafciated with
brown : and that the under parts are white, marked with both
longitudinal and tranfverfe ftripes : poflibly this may differ in fex,
if the fame bird.
This inhabits the colder parts of Europe-, being found in Sweden
and Norway.^ Is found, but lefs frequent, in Ruffia and Sibi-
ria, though it is met with even in Iceland and Greenland: in the
laft place the winter throughout; running backwards and forwards
on the lhore, according as the waves approach or recede, feeding
on fuch infeûs as are left on the beach. Often lkims along the
furface of the water, like a Swallow, catching infefts ; riling and
falling with the waves, but ever avoiding coming in eontaft with
them. In breeding-time retires within lhore, and lays from four
to fix eggs, a little bigger than thofe of the Starling, marked
with pale obfcure fpots. Twitters like the Swallow. Is not a very
Ihy
Ihy bird: often caught in fnares; and the flelh is accounted good
food. The feathers ufed for Huffing, like other feathers.
Le Chevalier tacheté, Sri/. Órn. V. p. too, 6.
neck, and back, are blackilh, margined with rufous grey:
fcapulars the fame, but barred with grey on the lides: lower part
of the back and rump white: fore part, as far as the breaft, mixed
black and white; verging to rufous on the lides: breaft and
belly white, marked with minute black fpots: lower belly plain
white: wing coverts grey brown ; fome of them croffed at thé
end with rufous grey and black: quills dulky, within hoary ;
fhaft of the firft white: upper and under tail coverts, the lides,
and tail, barred black and white. This feems much allied to the
laft, though varying fomewhat in defcription. Brijfon’s two figures
feem to differ not fufficiently to form two diftinél fpe-
cies.
Tringa cinèrea, B'run. N° i jg^Mulhr, N° zoz.^—Frifch. t. 237.
Alh-coloured Sandpiper* Br. Zool. ii; p. Zool. N° 386.
T E N G T H ten inches: weight five ounces. The head is afh-
colour, fpotted with black: neck the fame, marked with
dulky ftreaks : back and wing coverts finely varied with concentric
femicircles of black, alh-colotir, and white: coverts of thé
tail barred black and white : tail cinereous, edged with white :
breaft and belly white; the firft fpotted with black: legs dulky
green : toes bordered with a narrow finely-fcolloped membrane.
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