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Usual moulting jjlumage, and that of the young in autumn. With 

 the throat, line from the upper mandible to the eye, abdomen, and 

 lower tail coverts, white. A brown line between the eye and the bill. 

 Throat and breast of a rufous yellow, with longitudinal brown spots. 

 Some spots of blackish-brown upon the vent, numerous or scattered. 

 Plumes of the back and scapulars black, bordered with pale rufous 

 and yellowish ; mingled with patches of ash-colored feathers, indi- 

 cative of the passage into the winter livery. Wing coverts brown, 

 bordered with yellowish-rufous. — In the young bird the bill is 

 straight; and in the old its length oilen varies. — In a, young bird 

 (now before me.) with the wings, feet, and bill of T. cinchis. the up- 

 per part of the back and the scapulars are brownish-ash. scarcely edged 

 with whitish. The whole neck, head, face and breast, brownish- 

 ash, pale on the latter, with the centre of the feathers darker : flanks 

 also sparingly spotted with the same, the rest of the under plumage 

 white. 



SCHINZ'S SANDPIPER. 



(Tringa Schinzii, Brehm. Boxap. Synops. et Am. Orn. iv. p. G!). pi. 



24. fig. 2. [winter dress].) 

 Sp. Charact. — As in the preceding; but the species smaller, with 



the bill proportionably smaller ; the white, upper tail coverts more 



extensive i 



This species, so nearly related to the preceding, is also com- 

 mon to both continents ; penetrating inland in America, to the 

 western plains of the Mississippi, and inhabiting the shores 

 of the small lakes, which skirt the plains of the Saskat- 

 chewan, and probably the remoter wilds of the Arctic 

 circle. According to Bonaparte, they are rather common on 

 the coast of New Jersey in autumn, and Mr. Oakes met with 

 this species in the vicinity of Ipswich, in Massachusetts. 

 They are either seen in flocks by themselves, or accompany- 

 ing other Sandpipers, which they entirely resemble in their 

 habits and food ; frequenting marshy shores, and the borders 

 of lakes and brackish waters. They associate in the breed- 

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