DUNLIN. 477 



met with it in Western Missouri. No other record of its occurrence in 

 the interior is known to me. Dr. Coues says (Birds N. W^ p. 489) : 



" This species is inoluded in the present worli on the strength of its occnrrence in West- 

 ern Missouri, attested by Dr. P. E. Hoy, as above cited. Its presence, however, may be 

 regarded exceptional. As its scientific name implies, it is chiefly a coastwise bird, 

 though also occurring on the larger inlfind waters. It Is said to be common on the 

 shores of Lake Michigan. It is eminently a boreal bird, breeding very far to the north- 

 ward, and only rarely reaching the coast of the Middle States in winter, beyond which 

 its occurrence is open to question. It is rather plenty along the New Ecgland coast in 

 autumn, winter and spring, when it freqaents chiefly rooky shores covered with sea- 

 weed, rather than the bare sand beaches. 



" The egg of Iringa maritima is of the usual pyriforra shape, and measures about 1.40 by 

 1.00. The ground is clay color, shaded with olivaceous ; the markings are large, num- 

 erous and distinct, of rich umber-brown of different depths and intensity, occurring all 

 over the shell, but being most numerous as well as largest on the major half. With 

 these spots are associated thell-maikLngs of pale purplish-gray, and light neutral 

 tint." 



(Sub-genus Pelidna. — Bill slightly decnrved, much longer than tarsus ; tibiae bare 

 below; tarsus not shorter than middle toe.) 



Teikga ALPINA L. 



var. AMERICANA Cass. 



^^merican IDixiilin. 



Tritiga scUnzii, (Brehm.) Kirtland, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 1ij5, 185. 



Iringa aljiina, Kirtland, Am. Jour. Soi. and Arts, xl, 1841, 123.— Whbaton, Ohio Agrio. 



Eep. for 1860, 380, 480; Reprint, 1861, 10. 

 Tringa alpina, var. amer'ioana, Whbato:!^, Food of Birds,etc., Ohio Agrio. Kep. for 1874, 



572 ; Reprint, 1875— Lawgdon, Cat. Birds of Gin., 1877, 14 ; Revised List, Jonrn. 



Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 182 ; Reprint, 16. 



Tringa aljpina, Linn^us, Fn. Saec, 64. 



Pelidna scldnzii, Brbhm. 



Tringa alpina, var. americana, Cassin, Baird'a B. N. A., 1858, 719. 



Adult in summer ; above, chestnut, each feither with a central black field, and most 

 of them whitish tipped, rump and upper tail-coverts blackish, tail feathers and wing- 

 coverts ashy-gray, quills dusky with pale shafts, secondaries mostly white, and inner 

 primaries edged with the same; under parts white, belly with a broad jet-black area, 

 breast and jugulum thickly streaked with dusky; bill and feet black. Adult in win- 

 ter, and young ; above, plain ash-gray, with dark shaft lines, with or without red or 

 black traces; below white, little or no trace of black on the belly; jugulum with a few 

 dusky streaks and an ashy suffusion. Length, 8-9 inches; wing, 4J-5 ; tail, 2-2^; 

 bill, li-]f, longer than head, compressed at base, rather depressed at the end; tibia 

 bare about i ; tarsus, 1, or rather less. 



Habitat, North America, especially coastwise. Migratory and wintering in the United 

 States. Breeds in high latitudes only. 



