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Genus TRINGA, Linnmus, S. N. i. p. 247 (1766). 



Tringa, the late Latin form of Aristotle's Tpvyyas. Derivation unknown ; 

 but cf. rpiJfw, 7-pi?w = I sound, &o. 



Tringa maculata. Pectoral Sandpiper. 



Tringa maculata, Vieilloi, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 

 xxxiv. p. 465 (1819). 



Tringa pectoralis, Macg. iv. p. 190; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 77 ; 



id. ed. 3, iii. p. 82. 

 Tringa maculata, Gray, p. 166; Harting, p. 140; Dresser, 



viii. p. 11. 

 Limnocinclus pectoralis, Gould, iv. pi. 67. 

 The Pectoral Sandpiper, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 654. 



Maculata = spotted ; from maciUdre = to mart with spots, macule. 



A rare straggler to the British Islands. A North-American 

 species, migrating southwards in wiater as far as ChiH and 

 Brazil. 



Tringa fascicollis. Bonaparte's Sandpiper. 



Tringa fuscicoUis, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, d' Hist. Nat. 



xxxiv. p. 461 (1819). 

 Tringa sehinzii, Naum. vii. p. 453, xiii. p. 235 ; Macg. iv. 



p. 222; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 74; id. ed. 3, iii. p. 79. 

 Tringa bonapartei. Gray, p. 167. 

 Tringa bonapartii, Harting, p. 142. 

 Pelidna bonapartei, Gould, iv. pi. 71. 

 Tringa fuscicollis. Dresser, viii. p. 15. 

 Schinz's Sandpiper, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 651. 



Fuscicollis = with a dusky neck, hora fusciis-\-coll/um. 



A rare strajigler to the British Islands. An inhabitant of 

 North America, migrating southwards in winter as far as the 

 Argentine Republic and the Falkland Islands, 



