TRINGA. 



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Tringa melanota, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 462 (1819). 

 Pelidna dorsalis, Lichtenstein, Norn. Av. p. 92 (1854). 

 Actodromas bairdii, Cones, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1861, p. 194. 

 Tringa bairdi {Coues), Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 332. 



Synonymy. 



Plates. — Baird, Brewer, & Ridgway, Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 230 (head only). 



Habits. — Murdoch, Exped. to Point Barrow, p. 112. 



Eggs. — Described by Brewer on page 232 of the above-mentioned volume on Water-Birds. 



Literature. 



Baird's Sandpiper belongs to the group which have dark upper tail-coverts and dark Specific 

 secondaries. It may be diagnosed from the other species belonging to the same group by 

 its black legs and feet and wing from carpal joint 4^ to 5 inches. 



Large examples are often confused with small examples of T. pectoralis; but in 

 addition to the much darker legs and feet, T. bairdi may always be recognized by its tail, 

 the central feathers of which are not longer than the outer, though the intermediate ones on 

 each side are rather shorter. 



It breeds in Alaska and in the valley of the Mackenzie River above the limit of forest- 

 growth. It passes through the Western States on migration, and winters in South America. 

 Salmon obtained it in Colombia (Sclater & Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 547), Eraser in 

 Ecuador, Whitely in Western Peru, Bartlett in Eastern Peru (Sclater & Salvin, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1873, p. 455), and I have several examples collected by Reed in Chili. I have also a 

 skin sent by Andersson from Walfish Bay in South Africa. 



Geographi- 

 cal distribu- 

 tion. 



'tringa bonaparti. 



BONAPARTE'S SANDPIPER. 

 Tringa supracaudalibus albis s<£pe brunneo striatis : rostro quam 26 millim. breviore. 



No local races of this species are known. 



Tringa fuscicollis, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 461 (1819). 



Tringa campestris, Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl. p. 74 (1823). 



Tringa schinzii, Bonap. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, ii. p. 317 (1826, nee Brehm). 



Pelidna schinzi, Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. £f N. Amer. p. 50 (1838, nee Brehm). 



Tringa bonaparti, Schlegel, Rev. Grit. p. 89 (1844). 



Schoeniclus schinzii {Bonap.}, Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus. iii. p. 105 (1844, nee Brehm). 



Diagnosis. 



Variations. 



Synonymy. 



