274 Mr. Selby's Catalogue of Birds. 



This species breeds annually at Prestwick Car. I have also killed several young birds 

 and adults (in winter plumage) upon the shore near Budle and the slake or ooze inter- 

 posed between the mainland and Holy Island, about the latter end of September or 

 beginning of October. Several were also killed out of a flock this autumn, near Rock ; 

 and in August, 1827, I received a female from Ellingham. 



Genus TRINGA. 

 136. TRINGA VARIABILIS. DUNLIN. 



Tringa variabilis, Meyer, Temm. 

 Tringa alpina, Flemm. Br. Anim. 

 Dunlin, Flemm., Selby's lUus. Br. Orn. 



Winter f Tringa cinclus, Linn., Lath. 

 Plumage. | Purre or Stint, Br. Zool., Lath. Syn. 

 Tringa Alpina, Linn., Lath. 



Summer J Cinclus torquatus, Briss. 



Plumage. | Dunlin, Br. Zool., Lath. Syn., Mont. Ornith. Diet., Bewick's Br. Birds. 



137. TRINGA SUBARQUATA. PIGMY CURLEW. 



Tringa subarquata, Temm. Man. d'Ornith., Shaw's Zool., Flemm. Br. Anim., Sfc. 



Scolopax Africana, Lath. Ind. Orn., Gmel. Syst. 



Cape Curlew, Lath. Syn. 



Pigmy Curlew, Mont. Orn. Diet, and Sup. 



Red Sandpiper, Penn. Arct. Zool., Lath. Syn. 



Red Dunlin, Shaw's Zool. 



A rare British species. A male and female now in the possession of Mr. Ed. Backhouse, 

 jun. were killed near Hartlepool, in the county of Durham. 



138. TRINGA MARITIMA. PURPLE OR ROCK TRINGA. 



Tringa maritima, Brunn., Selby. 

 Tringa nigricans, Mont, Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 Becasseau violet, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 

 Selninger Sandpiper, Lath. Syn. 

 Purple Sandpiper, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 

 Knot, Bewick's Br. Birds. 



Common upon all our rocky shores. A winter visitant. 



Genus PHALAROPUS. PHALAROPE. 



139. PHALAROPUS LOBATUS. GREY PHALAROPE. 



Phalaropus lobatus. Lath., Flemm., Selby. 

 Phalaropus platyrynchus, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 

 Tringa lobata, Linn. 



Grey Phalarope, Br. Zool., Lath. Syn., Mont. Ornith. Diet., Betoick's Br. Birds, Flemm, 

 Br. Anim. 



This is a rare and occasional visitant. In my collection is one, killed near Embleton, 

 about eight years ago ; and another, greatly injured, was since sent to me by the keeper 

 of the further light-house upon the Fern Islands. A very fine specimen, now in the Mu- 

 . seum of the Society, was lately shot by the edge of a pool, near Heddon-on-the-Wall. 



