460 SCHINZ’S SANDPIPER. 
the only remarkable circumstance about it is that it should 
not also be found in Europe. As far as we know, it is exclu- 
sively North American, for the specimen of the young inadver- 
tently said by the authors of the “ Ornithological Illustrations ” 
to have come from South America, was found in the Vera 
Cruz market, as appears from their own account. As for 
Senecal, it was merely a gratuitous supposition on the part 
of 'emminck, too rashly converted by the same English 
authors into certainty, and it therefore remains strictly North 
American, for which country we have, besides Wilson’s and 
our experience, the unquestioned authorities of Vieillot and 
Sabine. 
SCHINZS SANDPIPER. (Zringa Schinziz.) 
PLATE XXIV.—Fie. 2. 
Tringa cinclus, var. Say, in Long’s Exp. i. p. 172.—Tringa Schinzii, Brehm, 
Lehrb. Eur. Vog. ii. p. 571.—Nob. Obs. on Wils. before sp. 213; Id. Cat. 
and Syn. Birds U.S. sp. 249.—Scolopax pusilla? Gimel. Syst. i. p. 663, sp. 
40?—Tringa cinclus, var. A, minor? Briss.—Tringa alpina? Vieill. (not of 
authors).—My Collection. 
In Mr Say’s valuable notes to Long’s Expedition, he describes 
as follows the bird which we have had carefully represented 
in the annexed plate, in order that naturalists may judge 
whether or not we are right in referring it to the new EHuropean 
species hitherto confounded with Tringa alpina, and lately 
separated by Brehm in his work on the birds of Europe, under 
the name of Zringa Schinziv. It is so difficult to say what is 
a species and what a variety in this most intricate genus, that 
we shall not undertake to decide from a single specimen, 
especially when, as in this case, it involves the identity of the 
bird in the two continents. 
“Pelidna cinclus, var. Above blackish brown, plumage 
edged with cinerous or whitish ; head and neck above cine- 
reous with dilated fuscous lines; eyebrows white; a brown 
line between the eye and the corner of the mouth, above which 
the front is white; cheeks, sides of the neck, and throat 
