U Ss. P. R. R, EXP. AND SURVEYS—-ZOOLOGY—GENERAL REPORT. 
List of specimens. 
Gatal.| Sex Locality. When Whence obtained. ‘orig’!| Collected by— |Length.| Stretch Wing. | Remarks. 
No. collected. No. of wings. 
= | ws 
May 15..... eK. Ball dscvscisis|assces 5.88 | 11.16 
salecesas dave. <lveceaedOssesaceeeal saree 5.80 | 11.16 | 
Aug. 12,1844]...... doltetsieee: eee 6.00 | 11.95 
May 15...00-:|.eoc0 GO. cece cccclecccee 6.16 | 11.80 
si¢eeies Ossie Ovaczceese|ocrne 5.80 | 11.50 
cocees do. ace (lsisiesles| cas Kes POWDSENG!| sine jets,s |iasiveleieiae 
LL79 | scvee Washington, D. C..ceesleaeseececeveerl|ecoeee dO... ccseccccleccees eee eescecesees 
10416 |...6-. South Illinois.... N. W. University.|...... R. Kennicott.. 
9046 | @ | Loup fork, Platte Lieut. Warren...|.....- Dr. Hayden... 
8801 || o.0 0. Scott’s Bluff, Neb...... Aug. 20 -| W. M. Magraw ..|....-. Dr. Cooper .... 
789 | oweese North fork of Platte....]....0. dO. cecslaseeee dO... .. 0005 
6686 |-..... MOXAS sac vvicese ele 0,669 s)\) ¢cise.e tjeice ja.ciee Capt. J. Pope.... 
5568'| 4G). || Petaluma; als: «:ecicsse|-c-ceesese'sne E. Samuels...... 
6679 |.cveee Fort Steilacoom, W. T.| May 5...... Gov. Stevens, 
Dr. Suckley 
Gov. Stevens 
aisielalats dO..cecevees 
Dr. Suckley. 
TRINGA BONAPARTII, Schlegel. 
Tringa schinzi, “ Breum,”’ Bon. Syn. 1828, (not of Brehm.)—Is. Am. Orn IY, 1832, 69; pl. lxix.—Sw. F. Bor. Am. 
Il, 384.—Nurr. Man. I, 109.—Aup. Orn. Biog. ILI, 1835, 529; pl. 278.—Is. Syn. 236 —Is. Birds 
Amer. V, 1842, 275; pl. 335. 
Pelidna schinzi, Bon. Comp. List, 1838. 
Tringa cinclus, var. Say, Long’s Exped. 1823. 
Tringa bonapartii, ScHLEGEL, Rey. Crit. Ois. Eur. 1844, 89. 
? Scolopaz pusilla, Gu. Syst. I, 1788, 663. 
Ficures —Bonap. Am. Orn. IV, pl. 24, fig. 2.—Aud. B. of Am. pl. 278; oct. ed. V, pl 235.—Gould B. of Eur. IV, pl. 330. 
Sp. Cu.—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 
Quills brownish black, 
darker at the tips; shaft of outer primary white, of others light brown; middle feathers of tail brownish black; outer feathers 
jighter and edged with ashy white; under wing coverts and axillaries white; bill and feet greenish black. Total length about 
7 inches; wing, 43; tail, 24; bill, 1; tarsus rather less than an inch. 
brown on the neck before, breast, and sides, somewhat disposed to form transverse bands on the last. 
Hab.—North America, east of the Rocky mountains. 
This is an abundant little sandpiper, sadly misnamed by American ornithologists. It is 
really very little like Zringa schinzti, Brehm, (figured in Naumann’s Birds of Germany, pl. 
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. 
