. A history of British birds . tertials barred transversely with pale reddish-brown; pri-maries dull black, with white shafts; secondaries edgedwith pale brownish-white; rump, and upper tail-coverts,brown ; tail-feathers ash-brown, barred transversely with palereddish-brown and black; chin greyish-white; feathers ofthe front of the neck, the breast, and sides, black in thecentre, with broad greyish-white margins; belly, vent, andunder tail-coverts, white; legs and toes pale yellowish-brown ; claws black. The whole length of a female is ten inches and a wing, from the carpal joint to t
. A history of British birds . tertials barred transversely with pale reddish-brown; pri-maries dull black, with white shafts; secondaries edgedwith pale brownish-white; rump, and upper tail-coverts,brown ; tail-feathers ash-brown, barred transversely with palereddish-brown and black; chin greyish-white; feathers ofthe front of the neck, the breast, and sides, black in thecentre, with broad greyish-white margins; belly, vent, andunder tail-coverts, white; legs and toes pale yellowish-brown ; claws black. The whole length of a female is ten inches and a wing, from the carpal joint to the end of the first quill-feather, which is the longest, six inches and a quarter. In the nestling the upper parts are rufous-buflf; crownblack with a light central streak ; two dark loral stripesmeet at the nape, which is brown with a dark bar; abroad black streak do-wn the middle of the back, and twolateral ones ; under parts warm unspotted bufi; bill black;legs pale brown. LIMICOLM. BUFF-BREASTM) SANDPIPER. 435 Tryngites rufescens (Vieillot*).THE BUFF-BEEASTED SANDPIPER. Tringa rufescens. Tryngites, Cahanisf.—Bill abowt as long as the head, slender, straight, de-curved and obtuse at the tip ; nasal groove long ; nostrils basal, linear, ratherlarge. Wings pointed, the firat quill-feather the longest. Tail moderate, doublycmarginate. Legs moderate, slender, the tibia bare for a considerable distance ;tarsus compressed, slender, scutellate, anterior toes scutellate, mirginate ; hindtoe small, elevated ; claws small, arched, slender, slightly acute. The Author had the gratification of obtaining the S2Deci-men of the interesting and prettily-marked Sandpiper, fromwhich the figure above was taken, in the autumn of 1826,when at Royston ; and soon afterwards made it known as anew visitor to England and Europe in the Transactions ofthe Linnean Society, xvi. p. 109, pi. 11. This bird wasshot early in the month of September, 1826, in the parishof Melbourne, in Cambridge
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