Tongas (lender.
Toes divided, or very (lightly connected at the bafe by a membrane
: hind toe weak.
Tringa pugnax, I'm. Syjl. i. p. 147- l.—Faun. Slice. 17;.— Scop. Am. 1.
N» 140.— Bfun. 168. 169.— Kram. p. 352.— Fri/ch. t. 232. 235.
Georgi Reife, p. 172.
Le Combattant, ou Paon de Mer, Brif. Orn. v. p. 240. 18. pi. 22. fig. J* 2.
_Buf. Oif. vii. p. 521- pi. 29. 30.— PI. Enl. 305. 306.
Ruffe, Rati Syti. p. 107. A. 3.— JP?//. Orn. p. '302. pi. 56.
Ruff and Reeve, Albin, i. pi. 72. 73 .— Br. Ziil. N° 192. pi. 6g.— ArB. Zoel.
p. 479. A.
Br. Mu/. Lev. Mu/.
T E N G T H one foot. Bill more than one inch, yellowilh;
■ *“ ' in fome black: the whole face covered with numerous
yellow pimples: irides hazel: the back part of the head, and
the neck, are furnifbed with very long feathers, (landing out
in a remarkable manner, not unlike the ruff worn by our an-
ceftors 5 a portion of this fet of feathers (lands up over each
eye, imitating ears : the ruff is of as many different colours
as there are birds who wear it, no two being alike 5 in general it
is barred with black, yet I have fee'n many white, or of one plain
colour j and I obferve, that of whatever colour the ruff may be,
the breaft is very little different; and the tranfverfe markings on
the upper parts of the plumage fomeWhat correfpond : the ground
colour, however, is moflly brown j the feathers in general barred
with black, and many of them marked with concentric circles of
black: quills dufky: lower belly, vent, and upper tail coverts,
white • the lad pretty long: the four middle tail feathers barred 9
I.
4* RUFF.
Description.