GRALLAE — SCOLOPACID.E— TRINGA. 
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THE RED-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 
Tringa canutus. 
PLATE LXXXV. FIG. 194. — PLATE XCVII. FIG. 218. 
(STATE COLLECTION.) 
Tringa canutus, Linnahjs. Gm. Syst. Nat. p. 679. Pennant, Aret. Zool. Vol. 2, p. 476. 
T. cmcrea. Wilson, Am. Ora. Vol. 7, p. 36, pi. 57, fig. 2 (young). 
T. rufa . Id. Am. Orn. Vol. 7, p. 43, pi. 57, fig. 5 (summer). 
T. islandica. Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc. N. Y. Vol. 2, p. 320. 
Knot. Richardson, F. B. A. Vol. 2, p. 387. 
T. cinerea. Nuttall, Man. Orn. Vol. 2, p. 125. 
T. canutus. Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, p. 49. 
T. islandica. Audobon, Birds of Am. Vol. 5, p. 254, pi. 328 (summer and winter). 
T. id. Giraud, Birds ol Long island, p. 224. 
Characteristics. Bill straight, 1‘5 long. Rump white, barred with black: tail even. 
Summer, black, ash and reddish ; beneath bright chesnut or bay. 
Winter, pale ash; beneath white. Young, ash varied with black 
and white ; beneath white. Length, 10 -0. 
Description. Bill slender, straight, slightly enlarged and depressed near the blunt point. 
Tibia bare for one-third of its length, or O'6. Toes with a narrow membrane. Tail nearly 
even. 
Color. Summer: Bill and feet black. Crown grey, streaked with black ; nape tinged 
with reddish : above ash-colored, mottled with black, white, and rufous. Quills blackish 
brown, with white shafts. Axillary feathers white, barred with brown. Chin, throat and all 
beneath bright chesnut red ; stripe over the eye somewhat paler. Tail ash-brown, bounded 
by dusky brown and tipped with white. Middle of the abdomen, vent and under tail-coverts 
white, tinged with chesnut. Winter: Bill and feet greenish black or yellowish: upper parts 
ash-grey ; each feather bordered with lighter grey. Stripe over the eye, throat and middle 
of abdomen white. Beneath white, streaked with brown, and with transverse brownish bars. 
Young, dark ash above ; a tinge of reddish or buff on the throat and breast, and a dark band 
from the bill to the eye. 
Length, 9’5 —10'5. 
This bird presents such varieties in its plumage, dependant upon age and season, as to 
have received several different names. We follow Bonaparte in restoring its primitive linnean 
name. It is common to Europe and America. The Robin Snipe, as it is called by our 
sportsmen, appears on the shores of this State in May, on its way to the high northern 
latitudes to breed. Eggs four, dun-colored, thickly marked with reddish spots. On its re- 
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