142 GRALLATORES. TRINGA. TRINGA 
Youngof At this age, the breast and belly are white, tinged with 
Liao fee pale buff-yellow; the markings upon the former not so 
distinct or well defined as in the adult bird. Upper 
parts grey, each feather near the tip being surrounded 
with a double circle of black and yellowish-white. The 
quills are also lighter in colour ; and the crown of the 
head more varied with streaks of hair-brown. 
Fic. 8. The summer plumage is very dissimilar to the two 
foregoing. 
eae The throat, sides, and fore part of the neck, breast, and 
Plumage. belly of a uniform orange-coloured brown. Crown of 
the head, nape, and hind part of the neck, orange- 
brown, streaked with black, and interspersed with specks 
of white. Back and scapulars black, barred and va- 
ried with orange-brown; the margins and tips of most 
of the feathers being white. Upper tail-coverts barred 
with black, white, and orange-brown. In this state it 
answers to the V’ringa Islandica of Laruam; and in 
its progress towards it, from the winter plumage, is suc- 
cessively the T'ringa calidris, nevia, and australis, of 
the same author. 
BUFF-BREASTED TRINGA. 
TrinGaé RuFESCENS, Vieillot. 
PLATE XXVII. Fic. 4. 
Tringa rufescens, Vieill. Gall. des Ois. pl. 238.—Yarrell, in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. 16. 109. pL 11. 
Le Tringa roussitre, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. tom. pl. 470. 
Rare visi Tris elegant T'ringa, now inserted in the list of the Bri- 
raphe tish Fauna as a rare visitant, was first described by Mr Yar- 
RELL in the 16th volume of the Transactions of the Linnean 
Society, as a species new to Europe, upon the authority of a 
specimen shot in the month of September 1826, in the pa- 
