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THE true Tringa^ or Maritime Sandpipers^ may 

 be placed next. They are gregarious at all times, 

 except during incubation, assembling in vast flocks, 

 and frequenting, almost entirely, the sea shores, or 

 marshes adjacent to them, a few being found in 

 pairs, on the shores of our largest inland lakes, while 

 breeding. Their changes during summer are black 

 and chestnut, or grey and black. 



TRINGA OF AUTHORS. Generic characters. Bill 

 of the same length, or slightly longer than the 

 head, often gently curved, soft and pliable ; 

 wings rather long, sharp pointed, the first quill 

 longest ; tarsi and feet of middle length (pro- 

 portionally shorter than in Limosa, Totanus, or 

 Machete*;} toes slightly joined at the base, and 

 narrowly fringed on the edges with a mem- 

 brane; hallux small, articulated on the tarsus. 



Types, T. canutus, rarlalili^ maritime, &c. 



Note. Gregarious in winter. Cosmopolite. 



