152 GRALLATORES. TRINGA. TRINGA. 



quently repeated. In spring, they sometimes associate with 

 the Turnstones (Strepsilas inter pres), which affect the same 

 localities. The flesh of this Tringa, from the nature of the 

 food, is strong and somewhat rank, much inferior to that of 

 the Knot, Purre, &c. The species is rather widely dissemi- 

 nated throughout Europe during its equatorial migration, 

 being found upon the rocky shores of the Baltic and Medi- 

 terranean, as well as upon those of Holland and the British 

 Islands. There is no difference between the American and 

 our own ; there it inhabits Hudson's Bay, and the other 

 northern coasts of that continent. 



FIG. 6. Represents this bird in the winter plumage. 



General Head and neck greyish-black, tinged with broccoli-brown. 



tio S n. nP " Orbits of the eyes, eye-streak, and chin, greyish- white. 



Winter Breast deep ash-grey, inclining to hair-brown, many of 



plumage. tne f ea thers having a darker centre, and being finely 

 margined with white. Abdomen, flanks, and under 

 tail-coverts white, spotted and streaked with deep ash 

 and hair brown. Back and scapulars greyish-black, 

 glossed with purple, and each feather margined with 

 ash-grey. Wing-coverts greyish-black, margined and 

 tipped with white, the tips of the greater ones forming 

 a bar across the wings. Secondary quills, nearest to 

 the tertials, almost wholly white, the rest having white 

 tips only. Lower back and upper tail-coverts black, 

 glossed with purple. Tail cuneiform, the middle 

 feathers greyish-black; the outer ones ash-grey, mar- 

 gined with white. Bill, in adult specimens, one inch 

 and a quarter long, very slightly deflected at the tip ; 

 the base reddish-orange, the tip dusky. Legs and toes 

 ochreous-yellow, having the tibiae feathered to within a 

 short distance of the tarsal joint ; and the lateral mem- 

 brane (or web) of the toes not quite so large as in the 

 Knot. 



