DUNLIN. 381 
and one which Mr. J. H. Gurney, to whom I am 
indebted for the above references, is much inclined to 
question. The Tringa torquata of Degland, it should be 
observed, answers to the 7’. schinzi of Brehm (1824), the 
T. conclus minor of Schlegel (1840), but is perfectly dis- 
tinct from T. bonapartic of Schlegel, the T. schinzi of 
Bonaparte (1828), which is figured by Yarrell, and is an 
American species having a distinguishing patch of white 
on the upper tail coverts, but not yet procured in 
this county, though at least four examples have been 
killed in England. Of the true Tringa schinzi, then, 
as thus distinguished, Mr. Alfred Newton possesses 
a specimen killed at Yarmouth, which renders it 
specially worthy of notice in the present work, and after 
comparing this bird with one or two small dunlins in my 
own collection from Yarmouth,* and with notes of 
examples sent me from time to time for identification 
from the same locality, there seems no doubt that this 
smaller race, although not common as compared with 
the large dunlin (the true 7’. alpina of Linneus), is 
nevertheless a regular visitant to our Norfolk coast. I - 
have now no question, also, that four dunlins seen by 
myself, at Cromer, on the 23rd of August, 1867, belonged 
to this small race, as I mistook them at a distance for 
little stints. When they approached nearer, however, 
to the spot where I was lying on the shingle, and, 
apparently indifferent to my presence, fed by the water’s 
Gerbe, adds, the north of Scotland, the shores of the Baltic and the 
North Sea, and Siberia to the breeding places of this race. Mr. A. 
Newton also tells me that he has found the larger race breeding in 
the extreme north of Norway. 
* One of these killed on the 28th of April, 1858, in nearly full 
summer plumage, agrees exactly with Degland’s description of the 
lesser dunlin in its nuptial dress. The abdominal patch is small, 
and the chesnut tints on the upper portions of the plumage, so 
vivid that the bird was sent me as a variety. 
