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Family CHABADBIID^. Genus TIUNGA. 



Subfamily SCOLOPACIN&. 



DUNLIN. 



TEINGA ALPINA. Linnaus. 



Tringa alpina, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 249 (1766) ; Dresser, 13. Eur. viii. p. 21, pi. 548 

 (1876) ; Yarrell, Brit. B. ed. 4. iii. p. 377 (1883) ; Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 184 

 (1885) ; Lilford, Col. Pig. Brit. B. pt. xxiv. (1893) ; Dixon, Nests and Eggs Brit. 

 B. 278 (1893) ; Seebohm, Col. Pig. Eggs Brit. B. p. 144, pi. 43 (1896). 



Tringa cinclus, Linn. ; Macgill. Brit. B. iv. p. 203 (1852). 



Pelidna alpina (Linn.), Sharpe, Handb. B. Gt. Brit. iii. p. 228 (1896); Sharpe, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 602 (1896). 



Geographical distribution. British : The Dunlin is a fairly common 

 resident on the British Islands, but greatly increases in numbers during spring 

 and autumn, and is more numerous on the coasts in winter than in summer, at 

 which season the adult resident birds retire inland to breed, leaving the immature 

 examples behind in the usual winter haunts. It breeds sparingly in Cornwall, 

 Devon, Somerset, the marshes of the Dee, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumberland, 

 Northumberland, and throughout the west of Scotland, including the Outer 

 Hebrides, north to Sutherlandshire, the Orkneys, and Shetland. In Ireland it 

 breeds in a few suitable places in the Midlands and the wild north-west. Although 

 its eggs have been taken in Lincolnshire, it can scarcely be regarded as more than 

 an accidental breeder in that county ; whilst in Wales it may probably breed 

 regularly, but its nest does not appear yet to have been found. Foreign : Cir- 

 cumpolar, Palaearctic, and Nearctic regions ; Oriental and extreme north of 

 Neotropical regions in winter. It breeds throughout the Arctic regions of both 

 the Old and New Worlds almost as far north as land extends. Southwards in 

 Europe, it breeds in Denmark, Finland, and the Baltic Provinces, and instances 

 are on record of its having done so in Southern Spain and Northern Italy. Further 

 eastwards its breeding range does not appear to extend quite so far south, as 

 Seebohm did not meet with it in the valley of the Yenisei below lat. 69 ; nor 

 does it appear to frequent the Baikal district or the Amoor Valley, except near the 

 coast. Its southern breeding range on the American continent appears not to be 

 accurately determined. It passes the coasts of Europe, down the valley of 

 the Volga, across Turkestan, along the eastern coasts of Siberia, North China, 



