3°-
+- PURRE.
Description.
Place and
Manners.
Tringa cinclus, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 251. 18.— Georgi Rei/e, p. 172.
L’Alouette de Mer, Brif. Orn. v. p. 21 u 10. pi. 19. fig. I.—Buf, 0 / vii,
p. 548.— PL Enl. 851.
Stint, or Ox Eye, Raii Sjn. p. 110. A. 13.— Will. Orn. p. 305.
Lead Snipe, Raii Syn. p. 190. 11.— Sloan yam, p. 320. 14. pi. 265* 4*
Wagtail, Kolb. Cape, ii. p. 152 ?—jBrown Jam. p. 477»
Sanderling, Albin, iii. pi. 88.
Purre, Br. Zoo!. N° 206. pi. 71.— Arbi. Zool. p. 390.
Lev. Mu/.
J ^ E N G T H feven inches and a half. Bill one inch and a quarter,
black : the head and hind part of the neck are pale alh-
colour, ftreaked with dulky : from bill to eye a white line: - back
and wing coverts brownifh afh-colour; greater coverts darker,
tipped with white : fore part of the neck, breaft, and belly,
white; the firft mixed with brown: tail cinereous; the two
middle feathers darkeft, the others edged with white : legs dufky
green.
This fpecies is common to mod parts of Europe; and, if the
bird meant by Kolben, at the Cape o f Good Hope: is alfo common
in America, at New Tork; from thence as far as Jamaica, and
other Weft India IJlands, and Cayenne. It only frequents thefe
kingdoms in winter; when they may be feen on the coafts in vaft
flocks, flying in large circles, alternately taking in the water and
land: are Ihot fometimes in great numbers, and thought very
good to eat. Formerly known by the name of Stints ; in fome
parts called Ox-birds. I have much fufpicion that thefe breed on
the coafts of Kent, as I had fome birds fent to me by Mr. Boys of
Sandwich, Ihot at Romney in the month of Auguft, which fcarcely
differed
differed from the defcription, except in having the margins of the
feathers on the upper parts of a pale ferruginous colour.
L ’Alouette de Mer a collier, Brif. Orn. v, p. 216. II. pi. 19- fig. 2.
Le Cincle, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 553.—P/. But. S52.
Lev. Muf.
T ESS than the Fur r e: length fix inches and three quarters.
Bill black: on the upper parts of the head, neck, and body,
the feathers are dulky or black in the middle, with pale rufous
or whitilh margins: throat and fore part of the neck white, minutely
dallied with brown down the lhafts: breaft and. fides
brown, edged with white: the reft of the under parts white:
the wing coverts are grey brown, dallied down the lhafts with a
deeper colour, the edges pale 5 fome of the greater ones white at
the tips: the quills brown; the nine firft have the end half of
the lhafts white; the others more or lefs edged with white : the
tail feathers are grey; the two middle ones brown on the inner
webs ; the others white within, and have the lhafts white : the
legs are brown.
This bird has much affinity with the Purre, and is often found
in company with that bird: probably a fexual difference, or that
of age.
Tringa ruficollis, Pall. TV. iii. p* 7°°*
C I Z E of the Purre. The bill is Ihorter than the head 8 the
15 crown and hind part of the neck ftriated ferruginous and
black: fore part of the neck, as far as the breaft, deep ferruginous:
the reft not unlike the Purre: legs black.
30.
V a r ; A.
Description.
31*
RED-NECKED
P. S.
Description.
This