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U S. p. R. E. EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY GENERAL REPORT. 



List of specimens. 



TRINGA BONAPARTII, Schlegel. 



Tritiga schitizii, "Brehm," Bon. Syn. 1828, (not of Brehm.)— Is. Am. Orn IV, 1832,69; pi. Ixix.— Sw. F. Bor. Am. 



II, 384.— NoTT. Man. II, 109.— Aud. Orn. Biog. Ill, 1835, 529; pi. 278.— Ib. Syn. 236.— Ib. Birds 



Amer. V, 1842, 275 ; pi. 335. 

 Pdidna schimii, Bos. Comp. List, 1838. 

 Tringa cinclus, var. Say, Long's Esped. 1823. 

 Tringa bonapartii, Schlegel, Rev. Grit. Ois. Eur. 1844, 89. 

 ? Scolopax pusilla, Gm. Syst. I, 1788, 663. 



Figures — Bonap. Am. Orn. IV, pi. 24, fig. 2.— Aud. B. of Am. pi. 278 ; oct. ed. V, pi ?35.— Gould B. of Eur. IV, pi. 330. 



Sp. Ch. — Smaller ; bill slightly arched towards the tip, which is somewhat enlarged and flattened, about the length of the head ; 

 grooves in both mandibles long and narrow ; wings long; secondary quills obliquely incised at the ends; tail rather longer than 

 usual in this group, with the feathers broad ; legs rather long and slender ; toes free at base ; hind toe very small. Upper parts 

 light ashy brown, darker on the rump ; nearly all the feathers with ovate or wide lanceolate central spots of brownish black, and 

 many of them edged with bright yellowish red; upper tail coverts white. Under parts white, with numerous small spots of dark 

 brown on the neck before, breast, and sides, somewhat disposed to form transverse bands on the last. Quills brownish black, 

 darker at the tips; shaft of outer primary white, of others light brown; middle feathers of tail brownish black ; outer feathers 

 lighter and edged with ashy white ; under wing coverts and axillaries white ; bill and feet greenish black. Total length about 

 7 inches; wing, 4| ; tail, 2i ; bill, 1 ; tarsus rather less than an inch. 



Hah. — North America, east of the Rocky mountains. 



This is an abundant little sandpiiDer, sadly misnamed by American ornithologists. It is 

 really very little like Tringa schinzii, Brehm, (figured in Naumann's Birds of Germany, pi. 

 187,) which is merely a smaller variety, or perhaps only smaller specimens of the common 

 Tringa alpina of Europe and America. 



This bird appears to be restricted to the countries east of the Rocky mountains. 



