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twelfths, gradually diminishing to the lower part, where it is 1 twelfth. The 

 rings, about 110 in number, are slender and unossified, the two last divided. 

 The bronchi have about 15 half rings. The contractor muscles are thin, the 

 sterno-tracheal slender; and there is a pair of inferior laryngeal muscles 

 going to the first bronchial rings. 



In another individual, the intestine was 13i? inches long, the rectum l£ 

 inches, the cceca 1 inch. 



The contents of the gizzard in both were fragments of shells, small black 

 seeds, and much sand and gravel. 



SCHINZ'S SANDPIPER. 



-KTringa Schinzii, Brehm. 



PLATE CCCXXXV.— Male and Female. 



Although I have met with this species at different times in Kentucky, and 

 along our extensive shores, from the Floridas to Maine, as well as on the 

 coast of Labrador, I never found it breeding. Indeed, I have not met with 

 it in the United States excepting in the latter part of autumn and in winter. 

 Those procured in Labrador were shot in the beginning of August, and were 

 all young birds, apparently about to take their departure. My drawing of 

 the two individuals represented in the plate was made at St. Augustine in 

 East Florida, where I procured them on the 2nd of December, 1831. I 

 have always found these birds gentle and less shy than any other species of 

 the genus. They fly at a considerable height with rapidity, deviating alter- 

 nately to either side, and plunge toward the ground in a manner somewhat 

 resembling that of the Solitary Sandpiper. When accidentally surprised, 

 they start with a repeated iveet, less sonorous than that of the bird just men- 

 tioned. They search for food along the margins of pools, creeks and rivers, 

 or by the edges of sand-bars, and mix with other species. 



Tringa Schinzii, Bonap. Syn., p. 249. 



Tringa Schinzii, Schinz's Sandpiper, Swains, and Rich. F. Bor. Amer. vol. ii. p. 384. 



Schinz's Sandpiper, Nutt. Man., vol. ii. p. 109. 



Schinz's Sandpiper, Tringa Schinzii. Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. iii. p. 529. 



