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naturalist of Switzerland, is not, however, the Tringa 

 Schinzii of M. Brehm, but an American species, the Tringa 

 Schinzii of Prince Charles Bonaparte ; and I must quote 

 American Ornithologists for its habits and distribution. 

 This species was, however, unknown to Wilson. 



Dr. Thomas Nuttall, who published his volume on the 

 Water Birds of the United States and of Canada in 1834, 

 says, " This species, so nearly related to the Purre or Dun- 

 lin, is also common to both continents ; penetrating inland 

 in America to the Western plains of the Mississippi, and 

 inhabiting the shores of the small lakes which skirt the 

 plains of the Saskatchewan, and probably the remoter 

 wilds of the Arctic Circle. According to Prince Bona- 

 parte, they are rather common on the coast of New Jersey 

 in autumn, and Mr. Oakes met with this species in the 

 vicinity of Ipswich in Massachusetts. They are either 

 seen in flocks by themselves, or accompanying other Sand- 

 pipers, which they entirely resemble in their habits and 

 food, frequenting marshy shores, and the borders of lakes, 

 and brackish waters. They associate in the breeding- 

 season, and are then by no means shy ; but during autumn 

 accompanying different birds, they become wild and rest- 

 less. Their voice resembles that of the Dunlin, but is 

 more feeble ; and they nest near their usual haunts, by 

 lakes and marshes, laying four eggs, smaller than those of 

 Tringa alpina (the Dunlin), of a yellowish grey, spotted 

 with olive or chestnut brown." 



Mr. Audubon's account of this Sandpiper, published in 

 1835, is as follows : " Although I have met with this 

 species at different times in Kentucky, and along our ex- 

 tensive shores from the Floridas to Maine, as well as on 

 the coast of Labrador, I never found it breeding. Indeed 

 I have not met with it in the United States excepting in 

 the latter part of autumn and in winter. Those procured 



