150 GRALLATORES. TRINGA. TRINGA. 



PURPLE OR ROCK TRINGA. 



TRINGA MARITIMA, Brun. 

 PLATE XXVI. FIG. 6. 



Tringa maritima, Erun. No. 182 Gmel. Syst. 1. 678 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 



731. sp. 18 Markw. Cat. Birds in Trans. Linn. Soc. 4. 22. Tab. 1. 

 Tringa nigricans, Mont, in Linn. Trans. 4. 40. Tab. 2. 

 Tringa striata, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 110. sp. 157., but not the T. striata of 



Lath, and Gmel., which refers to Totanus calidris. 



Tringa canadensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. 65 Steph. Shaw's ZooL 12. 122. 

 Totanus maritimus, Steph. Shaw's ZooL 12. 146. 

 Becasseau Violet, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 619. 

 Selninger Sandpiper, Lath. Syn. 5. 173. 15 Arct. Zool. 2. 480. 

 Sea Sandpiper, Linn. Trans. 4. 22. Tab. 1. 

 Quebec Sandpiper, Lath. Syn. Sup. 2. 313. 

 Knot, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 461. No. 193., but not the synonyms except that 



of Brunnick. Bewick's Br. Birds, 2. 75. 



Phayrelarn Sandpiper, Mont, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 4. 40. Tab. 2. 

 Purple Sandpiper, Wall. Syn. 2. 155 Mont. Ornith. Diet, et Supp. 



Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 110. sp. 157 Steph. Shaw's Zool. 12. 146. 



THE locality of this species being strictly confined to the 

 rocky coasts of the ocean, and never found upon the flat and 

 sandy shores (the usual resort of most of the maritime scolo- 

 paceous birds), has occasioned its falling less frequently un- 

 der the notice of ornithologists, and its history has been con- 

 sequently involved in much obscurity, and there is some dif- 

 ficulty in collating the synonyms under which it has been 

 described by different authors. In the above list I have 

 omitted the Tringa striata of LATHAM and GMELIN, quoted 

 by MONTAGU and STEPHENS as a synonym of this species, 

 as I consider it more appropriate, and rather belonging to 

 Totanus calidris in its immature plumage, than to this bird. 

 I have also rejected the Black Sandpiper of PENNANT 

 ( Tringa Lincolniensis of LATHAM), which bird MONTAGU 

 thinks may be a variety of T. maritima ; but, when describ- 

 ed as having long and slender legs, I cannot reconcile it with 

 the Purple Tringa, whose legs are short, the tarsus scarcely 



