288 SANDPIPER. 



it differs in the bill ; for as in the Purre it is of almost an even 

 bigness, in this it is thicker, where it is joined to the head, and by 

 degrees slenderer to the tip ; the legs are also not the same, as they 

 are somewhat longer, and thicker. In size it agrees, and has also 

 a common name with it, being called by the fowlers Giaroncello. 



It is described by Mr. White, among his birds of Gibraltar, and 

 corresponds except in size, being no more than seven inches and a 

 half in length ; head, neck, and back, dark brown olive ; throat 

 white ; the front of the neck and breast white, with dark brown 

 streaks; belly and sides white ; wing coverts curiously mottled with 

 brown ; bastard wing edged with white ; a broad white band across 

 the middle of the secondaries, which runs into the quill feathers, 

 forming only a spot on their inner webs ; the under wing coverts 

 black and white; the two middle tail feathers plain brown, the rest 

 tipped with white, and cross-barred with black and white ; the feet 

 when extended backward, reach exactly to the tip of the tail. 



This species visits the shores of Gibraltar, and its neighbourhood, 

 in small flocks; they fly very swiftly, and yet keep together in a 

 compact body, preserving a most exact regularity, and turning 

 through all their evolutions by one consent, in the manner of the 

 Common Stint, with which they hold a near affinity. 



47.— DUNLIN SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Alpina, Lid. Orn. ii. 736. Lin. i. 249. Fn.suec. No. 181. Gm. Lin. i. 676. 



Brim. No. 167 ? 173. Midler, No. 197. Frisch, t. 241. Faun. Groenl. No. 77. 



Fn. Helv. Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 534. 

 Scolopax pusilla, Gm. Lin. i. 663. 

 An Saginalis minor, Gerin. iv. t. 254. 

 Tringa variabilis, Tern. Man. 395. Id. Ed. ii. p. 612. 

 Cinclus torquatus, Bris. v. 216. 1. 19. f. 2. Id. Svo. ii. 268. 

 Gallinago Anglicana, Bris. v. 309. Id. 8vo. ii. 288. 

 Le Cincle, Buf. vii. 553. PI. enl. 852. 

 La Brunette, Buf. vii. 493. 

 Der Alpen Strandlaufer, Bechst. Deutsch.'m. 190. 



