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GRALLATORES. TRINGA. 



TRINGA 



Young of 

 the year. 



At this age, the breast and belly are white, tinged with 

 pale buff-yellow ; the markings upon the former not so 

 distinct or well defined as in the adult bird. Upper 

 parts grey, each feather near the tip being surrounded 

 with a double circle of black and yellowish- white. The 

 quills are also lighter in colour ; and the crown of the 

 head more varied with streaks of hair-brown. 



Adult bird. 



Summer 



Plumage. 



FIG. 3. The summer plumage is very dissimilar to the two 



foregoing. 



The throat, sides, and fore part of the neck, breast, and 

 belly of a uniform orange-coloured brown. Crown of 

 the head, nape, and hind part of the neck, orange- 

 brown, streaked with black, and interspersed with specks 

 of white. Back and scapulars black, barred and va- 

 ried with orange-brown ; the margins and tips of most 

 of the feathers being white. Upper tail-coverts barred 

 with black, white, and orange-brown. In this state it 

 answers to the Tringa Islandica of LATHAM ; and in 

 its progress towards it, from the winter plumage, is suc- 

 cessively the Trmga cdlidris, navia, and australis, of 

 the same author. 



BUFF-BREASTED TRINGA. 



THING A RUFESCENS, Vieittot. 

 PLATE XXVII. FIG. 4- 



Tringa rufescens, Vieill. Gall, des Ois. pi. 238 Yarrell, in Trans. Linn. 



Soc. 16. 109. pL 11. 

 Le Tringa roussatre, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. torn. pi. 470. 



Hare visi- THIS elegant Tringa^ now inserted in the list of the Bri- 

 tish Fauna as a rare visitant, was first described by Mr YAR- 

 RELL in the 1 6th volume of the Transactions of the Linnean 

 Society, as a species new to Europe, upon the authority of a 

 specimen shot in the month of September 1826, in the pa- 



