478 BIRDS — SCOLOPACID^. 



Common spring and fall migrant on Lake Erie, rare in spring and 

 rather common in the fall in the interior of the State. In this vicinity, 

 where I have seen the Dunlin only in the fall, it appears in Octoher, in 

 flocks of six or eight, frequenting the gravelly shores of streams. Single 

 specimens are often seen with flocks of other Sandpipers. The number 

 of specimens which are sometimes brought from the vicinity of Shadeville 

 and the Licking Reservoir induce me to believe that it not unfrequently 

 occurs in considerable flocks. Specimens in the collections of Mr. H. E. 

 Chubb and others, from Cleveland, are in full breeding plumage. 



(Sub genus Tringa. Bill perfectly straight, tibite bare below, tarsus not shorter than 

 middle toe). 



Tringa candtus L. 



liecl-brea&ted. Sandpiper; Oray-baclt; linot. 



Tringa canutus, Wheaton, Ohio Agric. Eep. for 1860, 380 (probable) ; addenda, 480, Re- 

 print, 1861, 10 ; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Eep. for 1674, 572 ; Reprint, 1875, 12.— 

 COUES, Birds of N. W., 1874, 491.— Langdon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 14 ; Revised 

 List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 188 ; Reprint, 22. 



Tringa canutus, LiNNiBOS, Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 251. 



Bill equalling or rather exceeding the head, comparatively stout ; adult in summer: 

 above, brownish-black, each feather tipped with ashy- white, and tinged with reddish 

 on scapulars ; below, uniform brownish-red, much as in the robin, fading into white on 

 the flanks and crissum ; upper tail-coverts white with dusky bars, tail feathers and 

 secondaries grayish- ash with white edges ; quills blackish, gray on the inner webs and 

 •with white shafts ; bill and feet blackish. Young : above' clear ash, with numerous 

 black and white semicircles; below white, more or less tinged with reddish, dasky 

 speckled on breast, wavy barred on sides. Length, 10-11 ; wing, 6-6i; tail, 2i, neaily 

 square ; bill about li (very vaiiable). 



Habitat, Northern Hemisphere. Australia. New Zealand. South America. 



Rare spring and fall migrant, in May and September. Mr. Winslow 

 notes this " maritime species " as not rare on Lake Erie. I have met 

 with it but once near this city, a solitary individual standing motionless 

 on a sandy shore. Mr. Ed. Savage, of this city, captured a fine male, 

 of a pair in full breeding plumage, at the Licking Reservoir, May 27, 

 1878. Prof. Snow gives it as common in Kansas and Mr. Nelson says it 

 is a regular but not common migrant on Lake Michigan. Its distribution 

 is chiefly coastwise, where it is abundant, and it breeds only in high 

 latitudes. 



Gbnus CALIDEIS. Cnvisr. 

 No hind toe ; otherwise like Bub-genna Tringa, 



