along the Atlantic coast, from Maine to Florida ; and Lambrye gives it as a bird of Cuba (Aves, 

 1850, p. 98). I think it winters on our South Atlantic and Gulf States, but numbers undoubtedly 

 penetrate still further southward. Of its breeding-range, nest, and eggs, I am entirely ignorant ; 

 but there is no reasonable question that it only breeds in the far north. It has not yet been 

 observed, to my knowledge, anywhere west of the Rocky Mountains ; nor did Mr. Dall notice it 

 in Alaska, where, however, I anticipate its occurrence, since in that latitude the ' Eastern 

 Province ' of North America, to which the bird belongs, trends westward to the very shores of 

 the Pacific. 



"Whilst in Labrador, in 1860, I saw these birds daily during the month of August; and 

 when I left the country, on the 1st of September, they were as numerous as ever. Audubon 

 says that on his visit those he procured were shot in the beginning of August, and were all young 

 birds, apparently about to take their departure. A note that I published in 1861, on the bird's 

 manners, is as pertinent now as then. ' They were found in great abundance on the rocky shores 

 of Labrador, covered with sea-weed and interspersed with muddy flats and shallow pools, in 

 which last the birds wade quite up to the breast. I have also frequently seen them .... on the 

 large masses of rock sloping down abruptly to the water, green and slippery from the continual 

 falling of the spray. They seem to be very fond of these locations ; and I seldom passed one 

 without seeing several of these "peeps" running nimbly about: and I have actually approached 

 within three or four feet of them as they stood motionless regarding me with curious eye. Of 

 all the Sandpipers, this is one of the most gentle and confiding ; they seem utterly regardless of 

 the presence of man, and do not always intermit their occupations though the observer may be 

 standing within a few feet of them. When startled, they emit a low soft " weet" different from 

 that of any other Sandpiper, and fly off in a very compact flock. If a part of them be killed, 

 the gunner may often make equal havoc with his second barrel, as after a few circlings they fly 

 past, or alight again on the same spot. They fly rapidly, in a rather unsteady manner, alternately 

 showing the upper and under part; and they may always be recognized, in flight, by the con- 

 spicuously white upper tail-coverts. They usually associate with the Semipalmated Sandpipers 

 and the Ring-Plovers (JEgialite semipalmatus), and, in common with other small species, are 

 known by the general name of " peeps." Those that I shot were not so exceedingly fat as the 

 Actodromas maculata and Ereunetes pusillus usually are at this season.' 



" It hardly seems necessary, at this date, to criticise Dr. Schlegel's unquestionable error of 

 uniting this species and Tringa bairdii; but that eminent ornithologist's authority deservedly 

 carries such weight that when he is mistaken the fact of error cannot be too often or too strongly 

 insisted upon. Mr. Cassin's notice (Baird's B. N. A. p. 722) is entirely correct ; but among the 

 specimens he there enumerates, Nos. 4869, 5442, and 8800 belong to bairdii. This fact, ascer- 

 tained by my examination of the specimens in the preparation of my Monograph, carries the 

 reference of 'Tringa bonapartii' in Hayden's Report (Geol. & Nat. Hist. Mo. R. 1862, p. 174) 

 to bairdii. Similarly the specimens representing ' Tringa schinzii,' of Woodhouse (Sitgreave's 

 Rep. 1853, p. 100), procured in New Mexico, and now in the Smithsonian, are, I find, bairdii. 

 These two are the only instances of malapplication of the name ' bonapartiV that I have found 

 among American writings." 



To what Dr. Coues writes I may add that the present species has been met with in Jamaica 



