. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . not so dark. The female much resembles the male, but is larger in breast is not so dark. The young at first are covered with greyish brown down,with a black list over the head and along the nape and back;the breast greyish white, the legs pale green. In their first years plumage they have the bill brownishblack; the head on the sides and neck, a mixture of palegrey and brown; the throat spotted with dusky brown; thebreast white, also spotted with dusky brown; back, wingcoverts, and tertiaries, a mixture of black, dark brown, p
. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . not so dark. The female much resembles the male, but is larger in breast is not so dark. The young at first are covered with greyish brown down,with a black list over the head and along the nape and back;the breast greyish white, the legs pale green. In their first years plumage they have the bill brownishblack; the head on the sides and neck, a mixture of palegrey and brown; the throat spotted with dusky brown; thebreast white, also spotted with dusky brown; back, wingcoverts, and tertiaries, a mixture of black, dark brown, palebrown, and buff; under tail coverts, white. Legs, brownishblack. These birds naturally vary very much in the intermediatestages of their plumage, between that of summer and thatof winter. I procured, in May, 1S42, a very elegant specimen of thisbird, shot near Burlington Quay, displaying to great advantagethe two plumages of summer and winter. The engraving is after a design by my friend the Pye Alington, Hector of Swinhope, 01 PURPLE SANDPIPER. SELXIXGER SAXDPIPER. BLACK SANDPIPER. SEA SANDPIPER. Tringn maritima, Pennant. , Pennant. « 7>>f))-i< U71S, MoNTACUJ. u striata, Fleming. Tringa— ? Blaritima— Maritime—belonging to the sea. This very distinct species is sufficiently common throughoutEurope, from the shores of the Mediterranean, Italy, Swit-zerland, and France, to Holland, Norway, Iceland, Greenland,Spitzbergen, and the Faroe Islands. It occurs in the likelatitudes in North America. Many are found on the coasts of England, Scotland, andWales, and some visit Ireland. In Orkney they are verynumerous, as also in Shetland. They breed in Iceland, and other northern lands. A fewremain for the purpose in this country. The nest has beenfound in Scotland, and young birds, scarcely able to fly,were met with by Mr. Selby, on one of the Fern Islands,off the coast of Northumberland. In England, the species occurs, or has occu
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