. Arctic zoology .. . A. Terek. Scolopax cinerea, iVcT. Co»», P^fro/-, xixe 473. tab. ^ifl/^«», in. A V. With a bill one inch ten lines long, flightly recurvated : wholeupper part of the plumage cinereous : the middle of each fea-ther marked with dufl^y ; on the rump in form of bars : lower part of. .,«-.\r. -rt, ;.-:>*-7;s:.i-:^e* ^J^^?^cc^/?^ ^^^i^Vcf^. J^4a,1. SCOOPING AVOSET. ^ 503 of body white : tail cinereous; outmoft feather on each fide variedwith white and afla-color : legs ftort, femipalmated. Size of theRed Sandpiper. Frequents and breeds in the north*; and haunts, dur
. Arctic zoology .. . A. Terek. Scolopax cinerea, iVcT. Co»», P^fro/-, xixe 473. tab. ^ifl/^«», in. A V. With a bill one inch ten lines long, flightly recurvated : wholeupper part of the plumage cinereous : the middle of each fea-ther marked with dufl^y ; on the rump in form of bars : lower part of. .,«-.\r. -rt, ;.-:>*-7;s:.i-:^e* ^J^^?^cc^/?^ ^^^i^Vcf^. J^4a,1. SCOOPING AVOSET. ^ 503 of body white : tail cinereous; outmoft feather on each fide variedwith white and afla-color : legs ftort, femipalmated. Size of theRed Sandpiper. Frequents and breeds in the north*; and haunts, during the funn- Place. mer, th^ Cafpian fea. Migrates through Ruffia and Sibiria. B. Scooping, Br. Zoo/, ii. N° 228.—Skarflacka. Alfit, Faun. Suec, N°- ~ iv. 591.—LAvocette, De Buffon, viii. 466.—PI. Enl. 353.—Latham, iii.—Lev. Mus. A V. With a black, thin, flexible bill, three inches and a half long, bending upwards half its length : head, hind part of the neckj and part of the wings and fcapulars, black : reft of the neck, breaft, belly, and tail, white. Weight thirteen ounces. Length, to the end of the tail, eighteen inches. Extent thirty. Inhabits, in Scandinavia, only the ifle of Oeland, off Sweden; where Place. it rarely appears in the fpring. Is properly a fouth
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