CHARADRIIDE. 581 
BONAPARTE’S SANDPIPER. 
TRINGA FUSCICOLLIS, Vieillot. 
This American species resembles a Dunlin in winter-plumage, but 
may always be distinguished by its smaller size, shorter bill and 
white upper tail-coverts. The first British example on record was 
shot prior to 1839, in Shropshire ; while subsequently three have 
been obtained in Cornwall, two in the Scilly Islands, four at Instow 
in North Devon, two in Sussex, and one at Kingsbury Reservoir in 
Middlesex. There is a specimen in the Belfast Museum, believed 
to have been killed near that city prior to April 15th 1836. 
On the Continent of Europe this Sandpiper has not yet been 
observed, for the Z. schinz¢ of Brehm and some other ornithologists 
isa small form of the Dunlin; though our bird is the Z. schinzt 
of Bonaparte, and under the name of Schinz’s Sandpiper was 
figured and described in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Editions of ‘ Yarrell.’ 
On June 28th 1897, a solitary female of this species was shot near 
Cape Flora, in the south of Franz Josef Land (Ibis 1898, p. 259): 
a very remarkable occurrence, for the bird has not yet been 
identified in any part of Siberia. Even in Alaska it is rare, only 
two specimens having been obtained by Mr. Murdoch at Point 
Barrow ; but it is generally distributed in Arctic America from the 
Mackenzie valley (where it breeds abundantly) eastward; while it 
occurs in Greenland in autumn, and is said to have visited Iceland. 
On migration it is common in the Mississippi valley, and along the 
whole Atlantic coast to Florida; ranging southward to the West 
