532 Cffp^SABINK's Memoir- on the Birds of Greenland, S^-c. 



This species was not seen on the shores of Greenland on which 

 we landed : but on our return homewards in October, off Cape 

 Farewell, a few were seen at a distance from the land, doubtless 

 oil their passage southward. In our outward voyage, in May, we 

 also met with them in lat. 60° N. and long. 13° W., then most 

 probably migrating northward. 



7- Tkinca Maritiaia. Purple Sandpiper. 



T. Maritima. Gmel i. 678. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 731. Brun. no. 182. MM. no. 206. 

 — Selninger Sandpiper. Arct. Zool. ii. 480. Lath. Si/n. v. 173. S; Id Siipp. 312. 

 Br. Zool. ii. 80.— T. Striata. Gmel. i. 672. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 733. Fair. 107.— 

 Striated Sandpiper. Arct. Zool. n. Al'i. Lath. Syn. v. 176. — Sea Sandpiper. Mark- 

 wick in Linn. Trans. \v. 22. — T. Nigricans. Montagu in Linn. Trans, iv. 40. — Purple 

 Sandpiper. Mont. Diet. S; Siipp. 



Fabricius was the first naturalist who knew this bird to be the 

 same in all its changes of plumage ; he called it T. Striata ; but it 

 being now more generally known as T. Maritima, I have given it 

 that name, being what it is usually called when in its summer 

 dress: the specimens killed at Hare Island in June, and at 

 Possession Bay on the 1st of September, were in this plumage. 

 In its winter state it has been called the T. Striata, or Striated 

 Sandpiper. As a British bird it has been described only in the 

 latter plumage, and it is the Sea Sandpiper of Mr. Markwick, the 

 Purple Sandpiper and Tringa Nigricans of Montagu. Temminck 

 does not notice it in his Manuel. The Greenland specimens have 

 been compared with two in my brother's cabinet of British birds, 

 the latter having been killed in winter ; the difference of the plu- 

 mage of the two seasons consists in the under parts during sum- 

 mer having less of dusky and more of white; and the feathers of 

 the back and scapulars being of a much deeper and richer colour, 

 and beautifully marked with broad white edgings: a similar mark- 

 ing is observable, but not so distinctly, on the back of the head 



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