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TRINGA CINCLUS. THE BLACK-BREASTED 

 SANDPIPER, OR DUNLIN. 



PURRE. STIN'T. SEA SNIPE. PLOVER'S PAGE. SEA LARK. RED-BACKED 

 SANDPIPER. SCRAILLIG. GILLE-FEADAIG. OX-BIRD. OX-EYE. DORBIE. 



Triuga Cinclus. Linn. Syst. Xat. I. 2-51. Adult in Winter. 



Tringa alpina. Linn. Syst. Xat. I. 249. Adult in Summer. 



Tringa Cinclus. Lath. Ind. Orn II. 73-5. Adult in Winter. 



Tringa alpina. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 736. Adult in Summer. 



Tringa ruficollis. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 736. Young. 



Purre. Mont. Orn. Diet. Adult in "Winter. 



Dunlin. Mont. Orn. Diet. Adult in Summer. Supplt. Both sexes in 



Winter and Summer. 

 Becasseau Brunette ou variable. Tringa variabilis. Temm. Man. d'Orn. 



II. 612. 

 Dunlin or Purre. Tringa variabilis, Selb. Illustr. II. 153. 

 Tringa variabilis. Dunlin. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 209. 

 Pelidna Cinclus. Bouap. Comp. List. 50. 



Bill a fourth longer than the head, and slightly decurved 

 at the end ; tail with the middle feathers considerably 

 longer ; tarsus an inch long ; bill black, feet very dark olive. 

 Plumage in winter brownish-grey above, each feather with a 

 dusky streak ; the sides and fore part of the neck, with a 

 small portion of the breast paler , and similarly streaked ; the 

 throat, breast, and abdomen, white ; tail-coverts dusky ; the 

 tail ash-grey, the inner webs of the middle feathers black. In 

 summer the tipper parts yellowish-red, spotted with brownish- 

 black ; the sides of the head, neck, and body, and the fore 

 part of the neck greyish-white tinged with red, and distinctly 

 spotted with dusky ; a large patch of black on the breast. 

 Young with the upper parts variegated tvith black and light- 

 red ; the fore neck, breast, and part of the sides spotted with 

 black ; the throat, middle of the breast, abdomen, and lower- 

 tail-coverts white. 



