5'Mi Copt. Sabine's Memoii- on the Birds of Greenland, ^-c. 

 9. 'I'ringa Alpina. DiinUn. 



T. Variabilis. Temm. 395. 



Summer. T. Alpina. Gmel. i. 676. Lalh. Iml. Orn. ii. 736. Briin. no. 173. 

 Mull. 110. 197. Faun. Siiec. 64. Fahr. 111. — Dunlin. Lath. Syn.v. 185. Si Siipp. 

 249. ~4rct. Zool. ii. 476. 3To>it. Diet. Supp. Sf App. Br. Zool. ii. 92. — Red- 

 backed .Sandpiper. fVil. Am. Orn. vii. 25. 



Winter. T. Cindus. Gmel. i. 680. Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. 735.— Purre. Arct. 

 Zoo/, ii. 475. Lath. Si/n.y. 182. Br. Zool. Q.94. Wil. Am. Orn. \n. 39. Mont. 

 Diet. 



Only a single specimen was killed. The bird is said by Fabri- 

 cius to be very rare in Greenland. The fact of the Tringa Cindus 

 and Alpina being the same bird may be considered as established, 

 the former in the winter and the latter in the summer plumage: 

 for this discovery Europeans are indebted to our countryman 

 Montagu. Even the acute and accurate Temminck has not ar- 

 rived at clearness on this point in his Manuel, though he concludes 

 the T. Cinclus as referable to the Alpina (his Variabilis) in some 

 state. It must not be overlooked, however, that before Montagu 

 had published his discovery, the close practical observation of 

 "Wilson the ornithologist of America, had put him in possession of 

 the fact also. 



These birds must certainly migrate from the arctic regions in 

 the winter; since neither Briinnich, Miiller, Fabricius, nor the 

 Fauna Suecica make any mention of the Tringa Cinclus. 



10. Charadrius HiATicuLA. Ringed Plover. 



C. Hiaticula. Gmel. i. 683. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 743. Mull. no. 209. Briin. no. 184. 

 Fahr. 112. Faun. Suec. 66. — Ringed Plover. Lath. St/n. v. 201. Arct. Zool. ii. 

 485. Br. Zool. ii. 105. Mont. Diet. 8f Supp. Wil. Am. Orn. 765. 



Killed at Hare Island in June : perfectly agreeing with Mon- 

 tagu's description of British specimens ; from whence it may be 

 inferred that the remark made by Pennant of the black collar be- 



