. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . fented, and which Linnaeus confidcrschara6ieriftic of the Iceland fpecies. Thefe laft-mentioned birds were placed in the fpring of 181C, w ithother varieties of the Knot-bird, in our Mufeum, in a fituatio
. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . fented, and which Linnaeus confidcrschara6ieriftic of the Iceland fpecies. Thefe laft-mentioned birds were placed in the fpring of 181C, w ithother varieties of the Knot-bird, in our Mufeum, in a fituation imme-diately contiguous to the original fpecimen of the Red Sandpiper, in B 2 order PLATE CLXXIII. Older that every obferver miglit be enabled to form his own judgmentas to the relative coiii)e61;ioi-! of the two birds, and it is, we may beallowed to conceive, from the publicity thus afforded them, that anopinion has arifen of the Common Knot and the Iceland Sandpiper^being only the winter and fummer drefs of the fame bird. In a future plate we fliall fubmit a portrait of the rufous belliedKnot, above defcribed, to the attention of our readers ; together withfuch information as we may conceive likely to elucidate the obfcuritythat feems to prevail refpefting them. Length of the original fpecimen of the Red Sandpiper eleveninphes ; of the one recently captured about ten inches. PLATE. PLATE CLXXIV, XARUS MARINUS GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill ftralght, fliarp edged,, a little falcated at the tip, and tootblefs:lower mandible gibbous below tbe point: noftrils linear, broader onth^ fore part, and placed in the middle of the bill. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Varied brown, afti and white with brown fpots: band of black onthe tail, tip white. Lakus Martnus 7. Lath. Ind. Orn, 814. 6. Larus Naevius : albtis, dorfo cinereo, reftricibus apice nlgris. Gmd. Lim, Syft, 598. Varitjs. Brurm, Orn, n. Maculatus. Brunn, ]V® 146. young bird?Le Goiland vari
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