150 GRALLATORES. TRINGA. TRINGA. 
PURPLE OR ROCK TRINGA. 
Trinca maritm™4, Brun. 
PLATE XXVI. Fie. 6. 
Tringa maritima, Brun. No. 182.—Gwmel. Syst. 1. 678.—Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 
731. sp. 18.—Markw. Cat. Birds in Trans. Linn. Soc. 4. 22. Tab. 1. 
Tringa nigricans, Mont. in Linn. 'Trans. 4. 40. Tab. 2. 
Tringa striata, Fem. Br. Anim. 1. 110. sp. 157., but not the T. striata of 
Lath. and Gmel., which refers to Totanus calidris. 
Tringa canadensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. 65.—Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 122. 
Totanus maritimus, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 146. 
Becasseau Violet, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 619. 
Selninger Sandpiper, Lath. Syn. 5. 173. 15.—Arct. Zool. 2. 480. 
Sea Sandpiper, Linn. Trans. 4. 22. Tab. 1. 
Quebec Sandpiper, Lath. Syn. Sup. 2. 313. 
Knot, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 461. No. 193., but not the synonyms except that 
of Brunnick.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 2. 75. 
Phayrelarn Sandpiper, Mondé. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 4. 40. Tab. 2. 
Purple Sandpiper, Wall. Syn. 2. 155.—Mont. Ornith. Dict. et Supp.— 
Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 110. sp. 157.—Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 146. 
Tue locality of this species being strictly confined to the 
rocky coasts of the ocean, and never found upon the flat and 
sandy shores (the usual resort of most of the maritime scolo- 
paceous birds), has occasioned its falling less frequently un- 
der the notice of ornithologists, and its history has been con- 
sequently involved in much obscurity, and there is some dif- 
ficulty in collating the synonyms under which it has been 
described by different authors. In the above list I have 
omitted the T'’ringa striata of Laruam and GmeE.in, quoted 
by Monracu and StEPHENs as a synonym of this species, 
as I consider it more appropriate, and rather belonging to 
Totanus calidris in its immature plumage, than to this bird. 
I have also rejected the Black Sandpiper of PENNANT 
(Tringa Lincolniensis of Latuam), which bird Montacu 
thinks may be a variety of J. maritima; but, when describ- 
ed as having long and slender legs, I cannot reconcile it with 
the Purple Tringa, whose legs are short, the tarsus scarcely 
