582 Capt. Sagıne’s Memoir on the Birds of Greenland, $c. 
This species was not seen on the shores of Greenland on which 
we landed: but on our return homewards in October, off Cape 
Farewell, a few were seen at a distance from the land, doubtless 
on their passage southward. In our outward voyage, in May, we 
also met with them in lat. 60° N. and long. 13° W., then most 
probably migrating north ward. 
7. Trinca Maritima. Purple Sandpiper. 
T. Maritima. Gmel. i. 678. Lath. Ind. Orn. 5.731. Brün. no. 189. Müll. no. 206.. 
—Selninger Sandpiper. Arct. Sool. à. 480. Lath. Syn. v.: 173. & 2d. Supp. 312. 
Br. Zool. ii. 80.—T. Striata. Gmel. 1. 672. - Lath. Ind. Orn. 3. 733. Fabr. 107.— 
Striated Sandpiper. Arct. Zool. ii. 472. Lath. Syn. v. 176.—Sea Sandpiper. Mark- 
wick in Linn. Trans. iv. 22.—T. Nigricans. Montagu in Linn. Trans. iv. 40.—Purple: 
Sandpiper. Mont. Dict. & Supp.. 
Fabricius was the first naturalist who knew this bird to be the 
same in all its changes of plumage; he called it T. Striata ; but it 
being now more generally known as T. Maritima, I have given it 
that name, being what it is usually called when in its summer 
dress: the specimens killed at Hare Island in June, and at 
Possession Bay on the 1st of September, were in this plumage. 
In its winter state it has been called the T. Striata, or Striated’ 
Sandpiper. As a British bird it has been described only in the 
latter plumage, and it is the Sea Sandpiper of Mr. Markwick, the 
Purple Sandpiper and Tringa Nigricans of Montagu. Temminck 
does not notice it in his. Masel The Greenland specimens have 
been compared with two in my brother's cabinet of British birds, 
the latter having been killed in winter: the difference of the plu- 
mage of the two seasons consists in the under parts during sum- 
mer having less of dusky and more of white; and the feathers. of 
the back and scapulars being of a much deeper and richer colour, 
and beautifully marked with broad white edgings: a similar mark- 
ing is observable, but not so distinctly, on the back of the head 
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