488 TRINGA MARITIMA, PURPLE SANDPIPER. 



ibid. 1868, 144 ; Brazil, Pelz., 311). Einope, rarely (Gould, B. E. pi. 330 ; Schl., I. c. ; 

 Degl., Orn. Eur. ii, 1849, 231 ; Meyer.. Brit. B. v, 1857, 9(j; Hart., Man. Brit. B. 1872, 

 142 ; this author enumerate.s fourteeu British iustauces, with the references). 

 Not obtained by either Expedition. 



Dr. Haydeu's quotation of Trmga honaparUi., p. 174 of liis Re]iort, is 

 erroneous, being based, as stated in the last article, upon Triiuja hairdii. 

 The claitu of fuscicolUs to a place among tiie Missouri birds rests, there- 

 fore, upon iny discovery of it in Kansas, where I found it, migrating 

 northward in flocks. May 22, ISOl, on the Republican Fork of the 

 Kansas River. As Dr. Richardson cites an example from the Saskatch- 

 ewan, we may be sure it ranges over the intermediate ground. It is a 

 very abundant bird along the whole Atlantic coast from Labrador to 

 Florida, occurring in most of rhe States during the migration only, being 

 found in Labrador in July, August, and September, and wintering far 

 southward. 



Mr. Dall did not, it appears, meet with it in Alaska, where, however, 

 I presume it will be at length found. During the migrations it associ- 

 ates freely with other small allies along the sea-shore and in the muddy 

 flats back of the beaches. Its general habits are much those of its allies, 

 though it has some traits of its own, among them a peculiarly low, soft 

 ''ftoee^," and a remarkable familiarity, or, rather, heedlessness. It may 

 be distinguished, even at a distance, by its white upper tail-coverts, 

 which show conspicuously when not covered by the folded wings. A 

 full account of its technical characters, as well as other items, may be 

 found among my various papers above cited, and Sharpe & Dresser's 

 great work on the Birds of Europe, in which country, it seems, the 

 species is of comparatively frequent, although only casual, occurrence. 



To judge from the only two sets I have examined, said to be of Bona- 

 parte's Sandpiper, the egg is altogether peculiar and unmistakable. 

 But the eggs resemble those of the Sauderling [CaUdris) so very closely 

 that I fear the identification is not beyond question. The label states 

 that the female was shot, but it was not received at the Smithsonian 

 with the other collections of 18G5, made by MacFarlane on the Arctic 

 coast and Anderson River region. These eggs being somewhat sus- 

 picious, I will not describe them further than may be iuqjlied in the 

 remark that they are absolutely indistinguishable from an unquestibu- 

 able set of Calidris arenaria procured in the same region. 



TRINGA MARITIMA, Briiuu. 



Purple Sandpiper. 



Tringa marlihna, Bi.'tJNX., Orn. Bor. 1764, 54. — G.M., Syst. Nat. i, 1788, 678. — Lath., lud. 

 Orn. ii, 1790, 731.— Vieill., Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv, 1819, 471.— Temm., 

 Man. ii, 1820, 619.— Les.s., Man. ii, 1828, 283.— Sab., B. Greenl. 532 ; App. Par- 

 ry's 1st Voy. p. cei.— Rich., Parry's 2d Voy. 354.— Sw. & Rich., F. B. A. ii, 

 1831, 382.-BP., Syn. 1828, 318.— Nutt., Man. ii, 1834, 115.— Naum., Vog. Deuts. 

 vii, 1834, 467, pi. 188.— Jenyns, Man. 1835. 211.— Aud., Orn. Biog. iii, 1835, 

 558, pi. 284 ; Syn. 1839, 233 ; B. Am. v, 1842, 261, pi. 330.— Keys. & Blas., Wirb. 

 Enr. 1840, 76.— Macgil., Br. Birds, ii, 1842, 67.— ScniNZ, Eur. Fu. i, 1840, 324.— 

 SciiL., Rev. Ciit. 1844, 88 ; M. P.-B. Scolop. 30.— Gii!., B. L. I. 1844, 236.— De- 

 K.VY, N. Y. Zool. ii, 1844, 237, pi. 87, f. 98.— Holb., Fn. Groeii. 1846, 39.— Degi.., 

 Orn. Eur. ii, 1849, 222.— Gray, Gen. of B. iii, 1849, 579.— Parz., Cat. Ois. Eur. 

 1856, 14.— Meyer, Br. Birds, v, 1857, 80.— Nilss., Scand. Fu. ii, 1858, 235.— 

 Reinh., Ibis, iii, 1861, 11.— Newt., ihhl. 1865, 505.— Gould, B. Eur. pi. 344.— 

 Hoy, Smiths. Rep. 1864, 438 (Western Missouri).— PUTN.. Pr. Ess. Inst, i, 1856, 

 216.— Wheat., Ohio. Agric. Rep. 18(i0, No. 206.— Turnb., B. E. Pa. 1869, 30 

 (rare). — Dai.i. & Bann., Tr. Chic. Acad, i, lfc69, 291.— CoUES, Key, 1872, 255. — 

 FiNSCH, Abh. Nat. iii, 1872, 65. 



