. A general synopsis of birds . RIFLE bigger than the Purre: length eight inches and ahalf. Bill one inch, cinereous : irides dufky brown : overthe eye a pale ftreak : the head, hind part of the neck, back, andwings, are brownifli black : lefler wing coverts dufky black: fromthe bend of the wing an oblique ftreak pafles over the wing co-verts ; the greater ones mixed ferruginous and black: quillsblack, and reach almoft to the end of the tail: the throat, breaft,belly, and rump, are rufous : vent dirty yellow: the two middletail feathers deep blackifh brown; the others barred black andrufous; t
. A general synopsis of birds . RIFLE bigger than the Purre: length eight inches and ahalf. Bill one inch, cinereous : irides dufky brown : overthe eye a pale ftreak : the head, hind part of the neck, back, andwings, are brownifli black : lefler wing coverts dufky black: fromthe bend of the wing an oblique ftreak pafles over the wing co-verts ; the greater ones mixed ferruginous and black: quillsblack, and reach almoft to the end of the tail: the throat, breaft,belly, and rump, are rufous : vent dirty yellow: the two middletail feathers deep blackifh brown; the others barred black andrufous; the outer feathers only on the exterior webs: legs dufkygreen. This inhabits Otaheite, near the rivers, and is called met with at Eimeo, or York Ijle, and is there called Te-te. This bird varies. In one fpecimen which came under my view,the crown of the head was dufky : the line over the eye ferrugi-nous j and a tinge of the fame was vifible throughout the wholeof the plumage : bill and legs yellowifh. 6 la il/u/e -U f/7tjf^// ._ S(7 // l-//l//tfyr.^ SANDPIPER. 173 In another all the Ieffer wing coverts were white: four of the pL. LXXXILmiddle tail feathers plain ; the others barred as ufual : but allhad the ftreak over the eye. Tringa maritima, Brun, N° 1S2. — Midler, N° 206.—Leems Lap. N° Sandpiper, ArB. Zool. p. 480, C. t S. C I Z E of a Starling. Upper parts varied with grey and black : Descr middle of the back tinged with violet: fore part of the neckdufky ; under part of the body white : tail dufky : the four outerfeathers fhorteft, and edged with white : legs yellow. Inhabits Norway and Iceland. Lives about the fea fhores, andemits a piping note. IPTION. Place. Tringa undata, Brun. Orn. p. 55. N° 183*Waved Sandpiper, Aril. Zool. p. 481. E. f^ ENERAL colour dufky, undulated with luteous and white:wing coverts and fecondaries tipped with white: rumpwhite : tail cinereous, and margined with black at the tip 1 thefirft
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