TEINGA. 



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TRINGA ALPINA. 



DUNLIN. 



Tringa secundariis internis (septim^j octav^ non^ue) pro majore parte albis : supracaudalibus Diagnosis, 

 centralibus vix albo notatis : halluce parvo : pedibus nigris. 



Examples from Eastern Asia and America are on an average slightly larger than those Variations. 

 from Europe and Western Asia, and may be regarded as subspecifically distinct. 



Tringa alpina, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 149 (1758) ; Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 249 (1766). 



Tringa cinclus, -j 



Tringa cinclus torquatus, > Brisson, Orn. v. pp. 211, 216, 309 (1760). 



Scolopax gallinago anglicana, J 



Tringa cinclus, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 251 (1766, winter plumage). 



Scolopax pusilla, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 663 (1788). 



Numenius Tariabilis, Bechstein, Naturg. Deutschl. iii. p. 141 (1809). 



Tringa variabilis (Bechst.), Meyer, Taschenb. ii. p. 397 (1810). 



Pelidna cinclus (Briss.), Cuvier, Mgne An. i. p. 490 (1817). 



Tringa schinzii, Brehm, Beitr. Vogelk. iii. p. 355 (1822). 



Pelidna variabilis [Bechst.), Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. i. p. 98 (1824). 



Scolopax alpina [Linn.), Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 176 (1826). 



Schoeniclus cinclus {Briss.}, Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus. iii. p. 104 (1844). 



Tringa cinclus minor, Schlegel, Rev. Crit. p. 89 (1844). 



Synonymy. 



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