LIMICOL^E. 



BONAPARTE'S SANDPIPER. 373 



SCOLOPACID^E. 



TEINGA FUSCICOLLIS, Vieillot.* 



BONAPARTE'S SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Schinzii. 



BONAPARTE'S SANDPIPER is another American species 

 which was first recorded as occurring in the British Islands 

 by the late Mr. Gould, who described and figured a, specimen 

 killed near Stoke Heath, which is in the collection of Lord 

 Hill. He says, "We have compared the individual from which 

 our figure is taken with others killed in America, between 

 which we could discover no difference ; its shorter bill and 

 white rump will at all times serve to distinguish it from the 

 other European members of the group" (B. Europe, v.). 



* Nouv. Diet, xxxiv. p. 461 (1819) Especial reference is there made to the 

 white upper tail-coverts characteristic of this species. In former Editions of this 

 work the name of Tringa schinzi, by which Bonaparte (Ann, Lye. N. H. New 

 York, ii. p. 317, 1828) designated this species, was employed ; but as that name 

 had already been conferred by Brehm (Beitrage Yogelk. iii. p. 355, 1822) on 

 a small European race of the Dunlin, it must be discarded. Bonaparte, how- 

 ever, was the first to describe the American bird, and the fact is appropriately 

 recognized in its trivial name. 



