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RED S.
Description*
Place and
Manners.
Tringa Icelandica, Lin. Syfi. i. Addend.
Tringa ferruginea, Brun. N° i8o.-—Muller, N° 203.
Scolopax fubarquata, N* C. Petr. xix. p. 471. t. 18.
Red Sandpiper, Br. Zool. ii. N° 202. pi. 72.— Ar3 . Zool. N° 392.
Aberdeen D°, Br. Zool. 203.
J ^ E N G T H from eight to ten inches. Bill brown, one inch
and a half long, and a little bent downwards: head, hind
part of the neck, and beginning of the back, dulky, marked with
red : fore part of the neck and bread cinereous, mixed with rud-
colour, and obfcurely fpotted with black: lefier wing coverts cinereous
: quills dulky: fecondaries tipped with white : the two
middle tail feathers dulky ; the others cinereous: legs long and
black.
Linnceus likens his bird to the Woodcock on the upper part; and
fays, that the under parts are rufo-ferruginous : rump whitifh, undulated
with black: and that the Ihafts of the quills and tail
feathers are white. The Aberdeen Sandpiper has the bread reddilh
brown, mixed with dufky: belly and vent white : elfe little differing
in defcription from the Red, of which it is fuppofed to be
the female, or a young bird.
The Red Sandpiper has appeared in great flocks on the coafls
of EJfex, on the edate of Col. Schütz: the Aberdeen one in
Scotland. They have alfo been met with on the coafls ofNew
York, Labrador, and Nootka Sound; and are alfo found in Iceland.
In the fummer frequent the neighbourhood of the CaJ-
pianSea; alfo the river Don-, but particularly about the mouth
of the Choper. It is perpetually running up and down on the
fandy banks, picking up infeds and fmall worms, on which
it feeds.
Lev.
Lev. Muf.
eleven inches. Bill one inch and a half long, and
awn of the head dreaked with brown: the upper
j ^ e n g t h
black: cr
part of the neck, back, and wings, alh-colour, mottled with
brown, and fparingly fpotted with buflr-colour, mod numerous
on the fcapulars: throat, fore part of the neck, and bread,
pale rufous: belly dirty white : rump the fame, eroded with
dulky bars: quills and tail dulky: the lad paled : the upper tail
coverts very- long, almod reaching to the end of the ta il: legs
black.
Inhabits Cayenne.
Tringa caftutus, Lin.SyJl. i. p. 251. 15.— Fiun.Sutc. 183.— Brun. N° 182.
Le Canut, Brif. Or«, v. p. 258. 21.— Buf. Oif. viii. p. 142.
The Knot, Bail Syn. p. 108. A. 5.— m il. Or«, p. 302. pi. 56,— EJw.
pi. 276.— Br. Zool. ii. N° 193.— Flor. Scot. p. 34. pi. 3' Zrd. Zooi.
N° 384.
Lev. Muf.
*\1I7’E IG H T four ounces and a half: length nine inches, or
'pW more. Bill one inch and a quarter; colour dulky afh :
irides hazel: from the bill to the eye a dulky line; over the eye
a white one : the top of the head, neck, back, and wings, alh-
colour : lower order of coverts tipped with white, and edged a
little way up with the fame, making a bar acrofs the wing .
greater quills darker, with white Ihafts : lower part of the back
and tail coverts dark alh-colour, mixed with white, forming
fpots like crefcents : tail alh-coloured : the under part, from the
throat to the vent, white, with fmall dulky fpots on the throat and
bread -. the fides under the wings, the belly, thighs, and vent,
B b 2 eroded
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SOUTHERN S.
Description.
Place.
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KNOT.
Description.