TRINGA. 



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fringa subruficollis, ~) Tr . .., . .. _. . 7!TT . . , T . . ,„„ .„„ /,,-,-,„* 



. b ' \ Vicillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. pp. 465, 470 (1819). 



Tringa rufescens, J 



Actitis rufescens (Vieill.), Schlegel, Rev. Crit. p. 92 (1844). 



Actiturus rufescens (Vieill.), Bonap. Rev. Crit. p. 186 (1850). 



Tringoides rufescens (Vieill.), Gray, Cat. Brit. B. p. 161 (1850). 



Limicola brevirostris, Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. p. 92 (1854). 



Actidurus nsevius, Heermann, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. vii. p. 178 (1854). 



Tryngites rufescens (Vieill.), Cabanis, Journ. Orn. 1856, p. 418. 



Synonymy. 



Plates. — Gould, Birds Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 64; Dresser, Birds of Europe, viii. pL 561. 

 Habits. — Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 226. 

 Eggs. — Seebohm, British Birds, pi. 31. fig. 3. 



Literature. 



The Buff-breasted Sandpiper differs from all other species of the genus in having the 

 inner webs of the primaries and secondaries mottled with black. 



It may be regarded as a summer visitor to the arctic regions of America, although 

 it has not been recorded from Greenland. From Alaska its range extends to the Siberian 

 coasts of Behring's Straits ; and Middendorff obtained a single example on the southern 

 shores of the Sea of Okhotsk. It passes through the United States on migration, to winter 

 in the West Indies, Mexico, and the northern portions of South America; and has 

 occurred on the Bermudas and on Heligoland. 



Specific 

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