CLASS II. AVES: ORDER 1. GRALLATORES. 



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throughout Europe. Temminck's Stint, T. Temminckli^ five and a half inches long; ash-gray 



above ; under parts white ; Ibund 

 in Europe, North Africa, and In- 

 dia. The Dunlin, T. variabilis^ 

 called also Ptfrrc, Stint^ Ox- Bird, 

 Sea Snipe, &c. — is eight inches 

 long; above black, rufous, and 

 gray ; beneath black and white ; 

 found throughout Europe and 

 North America. This is the 



Red-backed Sandpiper, T. al- 

 pina of Audubon. 



The Purple Sandpiper, T. 

 maritima — the Knot of Bewick 

 — is eight and a half inches long ; 

 plumage bluish-lead color ; found 

 in Europe and North America; 

 abundant from Maine to New York in spring and autumn. Schinz's Sandpiper — T. Schinzii 

 of Gould and others — is six and a half inches long; dark ash above; grayish-white beneath ; re- 

 sembles the Dunlin ; found throughout North America ; common in New Jersey in autumn ; 

 accidental in Europe. The Pectoral Sandpiper, T. pectoralis — T. macnlata of Vieillot, and 



THE BROAD-BILLED ANDPIPEE. 



THE DUNLIN. 



sometimes called Jack-Snipe, Fat-Bird, Meadow-Snipe, Short-Neck, &c. — is nearly nine inches 

 long ; dark brown above ; grayish-white beneath ; found in North America, and common along 

 the Atlantic shores of the United States ; accidental in Europe. Wilson's Sandpiper or Least 

 Sandpiper, T. pusilla or T. Wilsoni, is four and a half inches long; above black; beneath 

 white. It pervades the whole of North America, and is well known on the coast by the names 

 of Peep and Ox-Eye. 



To this long list of Sandpipers may be added the T. Cooperi of Baird, found on Long Island, 

 and the T. Bonapartii of Schlegel, found in North America east of the Rocky Mountains. 



CURLEWS, TATLERS, STILTS, AVOCETS, GODWITS, ETC. 



Genus NUMENILT S : Numenius. — This includes the Curlews, distinguished by a long, slender 

 bill, curved downward. As among the snipes and sandpipers, so with the curlews the females are 

 somewhat the largest. The Common Curlew of Europe is the Courlis of the French, Ciarlotto 



