DUNLIN 390 



Genus TRINGA, LimicTus. 



PECTOEAL SANDPIPER. 



Tringa maciilata (Vieillot). Nouv. Diet. cVHisf. 

 Nat., xxxiv., p. 465 (1819). 



In the Zoologist, 1898, p. 480, Dr. N. F. Ticehurst 

 writes : " I had the pleasure of exhibiting, at the last 

 meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club, the first 

 Kentish specimen of the Pectoral Sandpiper {Tringa 

 macula fa). The bird was shot, from a flock of Dunlin, 

 on August 2 last, along the seashore between Lydd and 

 Eye Harbour. It is an adult male, and its dimensions 

 agree almost exactly with those of Mr. Gurney's Norfolk 

 specimens, given in Stevenson's Birds of Norfolk, vol. ii., 

 p. 370. The bird is the property of Mr. Whiteman, of 

 Rye, to whom I am indebted for allowing me to examine 

 and exhibit it." 



DUNLIN. 



Tringa alpina, Linnaeus. S.N., i., p. 249 (1766). 

 Purre, Boys, 1792 ; Ox Bird. 



During the autumn and winter this is one of the most 

 abundant species of Sandpiper on the coast of Kent. It 

 is to be found on all the large sandy beaches and great 

 mud-flats in the estuaries, and high up the rivers, especi- 

 ally the Thames and Medway. There is scarcely a 

 month in the year that the Dunlin is absent from the 

 shores of Kent, and it may be procured in nearly every 

 stage of plumage. 



In his Birds Observed at Rainham, 1865, Mr. W. H. 



