Family CHARADRIID^. Genus Tringa. 



Subfamily Scolopacin^. 



DUNLIN. 



TRINGA KLYm K—Linnaus. 

 Geographical Distribution.— -5r//w/^ .• Fairly common 



resident, but greatly increased in numbers during spring and 

 autumn, and more numerous on coasts in winter than in summer, 

 at which season the adult resident birds retire inland to breed, 

 leaving the immature examples behind in the usual winter haunts. 

 Breeds sparingly in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, the marshes of 

 the Dee, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumberland, Northumberland, 

 and throughout the west of Scotland, including the Outer 

 Hebrides, north to Sutherlandshire, the Orkneys, and Shetland. 

 In Ireland it breeds in a few suitable places in the wild north- 

 west. Although its eggs have been taken in Lincolnshire, it can 

 scarcely be regarded as more than accidental ; whilst in Wales it 

 may probably breed regularly, but its nest does not appear yet to 

 have been found. Foreign : Circumpolar; Palsearctic and Nearctic 

 regions ; Oriental and extreme north of Neotropical regions in 

 winter. Breeds throughout the Arctic regions of both the Old 

 and New Worlds almost as far north as land extends. South- 

 wards, in Europe, it breeds in Denmark, Finland, and the Baltic 

 Provinces, and instances are on record of its having done so in 

 Southern Spain and Northern Italy. Further eastwards its breed- 

 ing range does not appear to extend quite so far south, as Mr. 

 Seebohm did not meet with it in the valley of the Yenesay below 

 lat. 69" ; nor does it appear to frequent the Baikal district, or the 

 Amoor valley except near the coast. Its southern breeding 

 range on the American continent appears not to be accurately 

 determined. It passes the coasts of Europe, down the valley of 



