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of Morocco and to the Azores, and in America to the Great 

 Lakes and the eastern United States to Florida, also to the 

 Bermudas. It is represented in western North America, in 

 the Aleutian Chain, Commander group, and Kurile Islands 

 by T. m. couesi, and in the Pribilof Islands, St. Matthew 

 and St. Lawrence, by T. m. ptilocnemis ; both of these visit 

 Alaska on migration, while the former has been met with in 

 north-eastern Siberia. 



Tringa alpina. Dunlin. 



Tringa alpina Linmeus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 149 : 



Lapland. 



Tringa alpina Linn. ; B. O. TJ. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 169 ; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 583. 

 Pelidna alpina SJiarjie, Cat. Birds B. II. xxiv. 1896, p. 602. 



^lp?ua=alpine. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Resident and a 

 Winter Visitor. It breeds on the moors of Wales and from 

 Derbyshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire northwards, becoming 

 more plentiful in Scotland, especially in the Shetland and 

 Orkney Islands and the Hebrides. It has also been known to 

 breed on the moors of Somersetshire, Devonshire, and Corn- 

 wall, and in Lincolnshire. In Ireland it nests in small numbers 

 in Ulster, Leinster, and Connaught. Numbers of continental 

 birds arrive in autumn and remain until spring, and non- 

 breeding birds are to be found along our shores throughout 

 the summer. 



General Distribution. — The Dunlin breeds in Iceland the 

 Faeroes, and in northern Europe and Siberia, and has been 

 found breeding as far south as Spain and north Italy. In 

 winter it visits the Mediterranean, north and east Africa 

 as far south as Zanzibar ; also India. A slightly larger 

 race inhabits eastern Siberia and North America and 

 winters in China, Japan, Lower Californiaj and the Gulf 

 of Mexico. 



