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and one which Mr. J. H. Gurney, to whom I am 

 indebted for the above references, is much inclined to 

 question. The Tringa torquata of Degland, it should be 

 observed, answers to the T. schinzi of Brehm (1824), the 

 T. cinclus minor of Schlegel (1840), but is perfectly dis- 

 tinct from T. bonapartii of Schlegel, the T. schinzi of 

 Bonaparte (1828), which is figured by Yarrell, and is an 

 American species having a distinguishing patch of white 

 on the upper tail coverts, but not yet procured in 

 this county, though at least four examples have been 

 killed in England. Of the true Tringa schinzi, then, 

 as thus distinguished, Mr. Alfred Newton possesses 

 a specimen killed at Yarmouth, which renders it 

 specially worthy of notice in the present work, and after 

 comparing this bird with one or two small dunlins in my 

 own collection from Yarmouth,* and with notes of 

 examples sent me from time to time for identification 

 from the same locality, there seems no doubt that this 

 smaller race, although not common as compared with 

 the large dunlin (the true T. alpina of Linnaeus), is 

 nevertheless a regular visitant to our Norfolk coast. I 

 have now no question, also, that four dunlins seen by 

 myself, at Cromer, on the 23rd of August, 1867, belonged 

 to this small race, as I mistook them at a distance for 

 little stints. When they approached nearer, however, 

 to the spot where I was lying on the shingle, and, 

 apparently indifferent to my presence, fed by the water's 



Gerbe, adds, the north of Scotland, the shores of the Baltic and the 

 North Sea, and Siberia to the breeding places of this race. Mr. A. 

 Newton also tells me that he has found the larger race breeding in 

 the extreme north of Norway. 



* One of these killed on the 28th of April, 1858, in nearly full 

 summer plumage, agrees exactly with Degland's description of the 

 lesser dunlin in its nuptial dress. The abdominal patch is small, 

 and the chesnut tints on the upper portions of the plumage, so 

 vivid that the bird was sent me as a variety. 



