BONAPARTE'S SANDPIPER.— DUNLIN. 229 



BONAPARTE'S SANDPIPER. 



Tringa fiiscicollis. 



This Tringa is also an inhabitant of N. America^ and is 

 nearly as rare in Sussex as tlie last. According to Yarrell 

 (vol. iii. p. 375), it is very abundant on the Atlantic coast from 

 Labrador to Florida. Dr. E. Coues states that he has fre- 

 quently observed it on the rocky shores covered Avith sea- 

 weed, and that it is, of all Sandpipers, the most gentle and 

 confiding. In this country an example was obtained by Mr. 

 Kent, of St. Leonard^s-on-Sea, who states in the ' Zoologist,^ 

 pp. 673-7, that the Schinz (or Bonaparte''s) Sandpiper was in 

 company with a Red-necked Phalarope, the latter swimming 

 and the Schinz wading in a flooded meadow, about two hun- 

 dred yards from the sea, directly opposite the village of 

 Bexhill ; they were not at all shy, and he killed both at one 

 shot. They proved to be males. This was the first recorded 

 Sussex specimen, and the date was October 8th, 1857. 



Another was taken at Eastbourne, now in possession of 

 Mr. Gurney, on November 12th, 1870. It was alone and 

 standing on one leg, Avhich attracted the attention of the 

 person who shot it, though he at first mistook it for a Dunlin. 

 It was a male bird and was recorded by Mr. J. H. Gurney, 

 jun., in the ' Zoologist,^ p. 24ji2, s. s. 



DUNLIN. 



Tringa al])ma. 



The Dunlin, also called the Purre, or the Ox-bird, is the 

 most abundant of all the waders on the whole of our coast. 



