. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . il6 BRITISH BIRDS. RED SANDPIPER. ABERDEEN SANDPIPER.{^Tringa Icelandicoy Lin.) Latham defcribes this bird in the followingmanner :— Length from eight to ten inches: billbrown, one inch and a half long, and a little bentdownwards: head, hinder part of the neck, andbeginning of the back, dulky, marked with red;fore part of the neck and breaft cinereous, mix-ed with ruft colour, and obfcurely fpotted withblack: leffer wing coverts cinereous : quills dulky:fecondaries tipped with white: the two middle tailfeathers dulky; the others ciner
. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . il6 BRITISH BIRDS. RED SANDPIPER. ABERDEEN SANDPIPER.{^Tringa Icelandicoy Lin.) Latham defcribes this bird in the followingmanner :— Length from eight to ten inches: billbrown, one inch and a half long, and a little bentdownwards: head, hinder part of the neck, andbeginning of the back, dulky, marked with red;fore part of the neck and breaft cinereous, mix-ed with ruft colour, and obfcurely fpotted withblack: leffer wing coverts cinereous : quills dulky:fecondaries tipped with white: the two middle tailfeathers dulky; the others cinereous : legs long andblack. The fame author mentions another varie-ty, which is called by Pennant the Aberdeen Sand-piper : it has the breaft reddilh brown, mixed withdulky: belly and vent white: in other refpefts itis like the Red Sandpiper, of which it is fuppofedby Latham to be the female, or a young bird. Headds, the Red Sandpiper has appeared in greatflocks on the coafts of Eflex: the Aberdeen, inScotland. They have alfo been met with on thecoafts o
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