SCOLOFACID^.] 



DUNLIN. 



TRINGA ALPINA, Linn^us. 



Explanation of Plate. 



Figure 1 



Tain, N.B., May 19, 1890. -^ 



2. Rockcliffe Marsh, Cumberland, May 27, 1892. i- '^,^°,,^ '°^ 



3. Tain, N.B., May 30, 1891. 3 " ^^^^^^^ ^sq. 



4. Cardiganshire, May 13, 1893 ; J. H. Salter coll. lu collection of J. H. 



Salter, Esq. 



5. Tain, N.B., June 13, 1891. 



6. Rockcliffe Marsh, Cumberland, June 21, 1890. 



In collection o£ 

 H. Massey, Esq. 



12. Iceland, May 25, 1883. 



June 8, 1892. 

 May 188G. In collection of R. W. Chase, Esq. 

 June 21, 1890. In collection of II. Massey, Esq. 

 May 1886. In collection of R. W. Chase, Esq. 

 June 8, 1892. -J In collection of 



II. Massey, Esq. 



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The Dunlin is a spring and autumn migrant, but numbers are resident in 

 the British Islands throughout the year. 



Mb. Howaed Saunders writes as follows respecting the distribution of this species 

 in the British Islands * : — " The Dunlin is the most numerous of the Sandpipers 

 which frequent our shores and tidal rivers, where it may be found throughout 

 the year ; for although many of the adults retire inland for nesting-purposes, 

 their place is taken in summer by immature birds. Its favourite breeding- 

 quarters are wild and often elevated moorlands, which are comparatively rare in 

 the south of England ; but nests have been found in Cornwall and Devon, and I 

 have seen the young hardly able to fly on Exmoor in Somerset. Satisfactory 

 evidence is wanting as regards Wales f , but the species breeds sparsely in the 



* ' Manual of British Birds,' p. 569. 



t [Since this was written the Dunlin has been discovered breeding in Cardiganshire by Mr. J. H. 

 Salter, and in Merionethshire by Mr. H. S. Davenport (see pp. 5, 6). — F. P.] 



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