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SCHINZ’S SANDPIPER. 
Tringa Schinzii, Buonaparte Eyton. GouLp. 
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Tis species has been named after M. Schinz, the very 
eminent naturalist of Switzerland. 
It is a native of America, and spreads over the whole of 
the northern continent, which appears to be its stronghold, 
throughout the United States, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Maine, 
and N ew Jersey, from Florida to Labrador. Meyer says that 
in Europe it occurs not uncommonly in Denmark, Holstein, 
and Schleswig, and along the borders of the North Sea and 
the Baltic. 
A specimen, shot near Stoke Heath, Shropshire, was in the 
collection of Sir Rowland Hill, Bart., as made known to the 
public by the late Tuomas Eyton, Esq., of Eyton. 
These birds, according to Charles Lucien buouaparte, the 
Prince of Canino, frequent the borders of lakes, marshy pe 
creeks, sand-bars, and brackish waters. 
In the earlier part of the season they are by no means shy, 
but they become so afterwards, whether in flocks by themselves, 
or associated with other allied species. 
Audubon says, ‘They fly at a considerable height with 
rapidity, deviating alternately to either side, and plunge toward 
the ground.’ 
They feed on small beetles, and other insects and their 
larvee, and worms picked up at the water’s edge. 
The note is a mere ‘weet,’ or ‘tree, tree,’ expressed in a shrill 
and unmelodious manner. 
The nest is placed by lakes or marshes, on some grassy knoll. 
The eggs are four in number, yellowish grey, or pale olive 
creen, spotted with olive or chesnut brown markings. 
