General 
descrip- 
tion. 
Winter 
plumage. 
152 GRALLATORES. TRINGA. TRINGA. 
quently repeated. In spring, they sometimes associate with 
the Turnstones (Strepsilas interpres), which affect the same 
localities. The flesh of this Tringa, from the nature of the 
food, is strong and somewhat rank, much inferior to that of 
the Knot, Purre, &c. The species is rather widely dissemi- 
nated throughout Europe during its equatorial migration, 
being found upon the rocky shores of the Baltic and Medi- 
terranean, as well as upon those of Holland and the British 
Islands. ‘There is no difference between the American and 
our own; there it inhabits Hudson’s Bay, and the other 
northern coasts of that continent. 
Fic. 6. Represents this bird in the winter plumage. 
Head and neck greyish-black, tinged with broccoli-brewn. 
Orbits of the eyes, eye-streak, and chin, greyish-white. 
Breast deep ash-grey, inclining to hair-brown, many of 
the feathers having a darker centre, and being finely 
margined with white. Abdomen, flanks, and under 
tail-coverts white, spotted and streaked with deep ash 
and hair brown. Back and scapulars greyish-black, 
glossed with purple, and each feather margined with 
ash-grey. Wing-coverts greyish-black, margined and 
tipped with white, the tips of the greater ones forming 
a bar across the wings. Secondary quills, nearest to 
the tertials, almost wholly white, the rest having white 
tips only. Lower back and upper tail-coverts black, 
glossed with purple. Tail cuneiform, the middle 
feathers greyish-black ; the outer ones ash-grey, mar- 
gined with white. Bill, in adult specimens, one inch 
and a quarter long, very slightly deflected at the tip; 
tne base reddish-orange, the tip dusky. Legs and toes 
ochreous-yellow, having the tibiae feathered to within a 
short distance of the tarsal joint; and the lateral mem- 
brane (or web) of the toes not quite so large as in the 
Knot. 
