Family CHARADRIID^. Genus Tringa. 



Subfamily Scolopacin/e. 



BONAPARTE'S SANDPIPER. 



TRINGA FUSCICOLLIS— F/«7&/. 



Geographical Distribution.— ^;^zV/j/l.- Accidental straggler 

 on autumn migration, having occurred chiefly in October and 

 November. Its claim to rank as British rests on the following 

 recorded instances. England : Shropshire (i example), Sussex 

 (2 examples), Middlesex (i example), Devonshire (4 examples), 

 Cornwall (3 examples), Scilly Isles (2 examples). Scotland : 

 Not been obtained. Ireland : One example said to have been 

 shot near Belfast, and now preserved in the museum of that 

 town. Foreign : Northern Nearctic region ; Neotropical region in 

 winter. Breeds throughout Arctic America from Greenland in 

 the east to the Mackenzie River in the west. Of only accidental 

 occurrence west of the Rocky Mountains, two examples having 

 been obtained at Point Barrow, the most northerly land in Alaska. 

 Passes the United States, inland as well as along the coast, and 

 the Bermudas on migration, and winters in the West Indies, 

 Central America, and throughout South America to the Falkland 

 Islands. 



Allied Forms. — Probably most nearly related to Tringa 

 canutus, a British species dealt with fully elsewhere ; and from 

 which it is readily distinguished by its short bill, which seldom 

 measures more than '9 inch, and nearly white upper tail coverts. 



Time during which Bonaparte's Sandpiper may be 



taken. — August ist to March ist. 



Habits. — The habits of Bonaparte's Sandpiper very closely 

 resemble those of the Dunlin, although during the breeding 

 season it is rather more of an Arctic bird. Its migrations are 



