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Title: Illustrations of ornithology
Year: 1826 (1820s)
Authors: Jardine, William, 1800-1874 Selby, Prideaux John, 1788-1867 Lear, Edward, 1812-1888, ill Mitford, R. C. W. (Reginald Colville William), b. 1839, ill Hewitt, Eleanor G., donor. DSI Hewitt, Sarah Cooper, donor. DSI Lenox Library, former owner. DSI Bailer Bros. (Firm), binder. DSI
Subjects: Birds Birds Arsenic compounds
Publisher: Edinburgh : Published by W.H. Lizars London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, and S. Highley Dublin : W. Curry Junr. & Co.

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f the neck and breast ash-grey, with hair-brown streaks, the abdomenand vent white ; the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts are deep hair-brown, the feathers margined with ash-grey, and reddish-white; the lowerback and upper tail-coverts brownish-black; the tail is cuneated, the fea-thers of a deep hair-brown, margined with reddish-white ; the quills arehair-brown, the shafts white, and when closed, the wings reach to the endof the tail; the legs and toes are slender, of a bluish-grey colour, thelatter are furnished with lateral membranes similar to the common Knot.This in all probability, and judging from analogy, is the winter plumageof the species, and we may infer, that during the summer and breedingseason, it acquires a livery somewhat similar to that which distinguishesthe Tringa Islandica, or to the American Red-breasted Sandpiper ofWilson, to which it appears nearly allied. Of its habits and manners weare unable to speak, as no memorandum accompanied the skins which wereceived.
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