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on the middle of the feathers : the rump, upper tail-coverts and flanks 

 broadly are white ; the throat is pure white : the sides of the neck are 

 tinged with rusty : the neck beneath and breast are white, slightly 

 tinged with reddish-dusky ; the belly of a purer white with a little 

 dusky ; the vent, and long lower tail-coverts, which reach to the tip of 

 the tail, are pure white : the wings are four and three-quarter inches 

 long, the lower coverts white. The scapulars blacker, with pale rusty 

 edges : the primaries are blackish, with pale brown shafts, of which the 

 outer is white. The tail is broad and rounded, the middle and outer 

 feathers somewhat longest ; all of a pale dusky gray with white shafts, 

 the exterior being also white on the best part of the inner web. All 

 the tail-feathers are also edged Avith white. The feet are reddish black, 

 the tarsus an inch and a quarter long. 



We are acquainted as yet with no peculiarity of this fine Phalarope, 

 and even the few facts registered concerning it have been obscured by 

 the heedlessness of compilers. Though it appears to extend its migra- 

 tions more to the south than its congeneric species, it is decidedly like 

 them (notwithstanding Temminck's supposition to the contrary), an 

 Arctic bird, and the only remarkable circumstance about it is that it 

 should not also be found in Europe. As far as we know it is exclusively 

 North American, for the specimen of the young inadvertently said by 

 the authors of the Ornithological Illustrations to have come from South 

 America, was found in the Vera Cruz market, as appears from their 

 own account. As for Senegal, it was merely a gratuitous supposition 

 on the part of Temminck, too rashly converted by the same English 

 authors into certainty, and it therefore remains strictly North American, 

 for which country we have, besides Wilson's and our experience, the 

 unquestioned authorities of Yieillot and Sabine. 



TRINGA SCHINZIL 



SCHINZ'S SANDPIPER. 



[Plate XXIV. Fig. 2.] 



Tringa cincltis, var. Say, in Long^s Exp. i., p. 172. — Tringa Schinzii, Brehm, Lehrb. 

 Eur. Vog. ii., p. 571. Nob. Obs. on Wils. before Sp. 213. Id. Cat. and Si/n. 

 Birds U. S. Sp. 2^^ .— Scolopax jmsilla ? Gmel. Syst. i., p. 663, Sp. AQl— Tringa 

 cinclus var. a minor? Briss. — Tringa alpina? Vxeill. (not of authors.) 



In Mr. Say's valuable notes to Long's Expedition, he describes as 

 follows the bird which we have had carefully represented in the annexed 

 plate in order that naturalists may judge whether, or not we are right 

 in referring it to the new European species hitherto confounded with 



