SCHINZ’S SANDPIPER, 461 
cinereous lineated with blackish brown ; bill short, straight, 
black; chin, breast, belly, vent, and inferior tail-coverts pure 
white; plumage plumbeous at base ; scapulars and lesser wing- 
coverts margined with white; greater wing-coverts with a 
broad white tip; primaries surpassing the tip of the tail, 
blackish, shghtly edged with whitish ; exterior shaft white, 
shafts whitish on the middle of their length ; rump blackish, 
plumage margined at tip with cinereous tinctured with rufous ; 
tail-coverts white, submargins black; tail-feathers cinereous 
margined with white ; two middle ones slightly longer, black 
margined with white ; legs blackish. Adult male, length to 
tip of tail, seven inches; bill, seven-eighths of an inch.” 
This bird was shot in November near Engineer Cantonment. 
and Mr Say thought it was probably a variety of the very 
changeable cinclus (Tringa alpina) in its winter plumage. 
It is this very specimen that we have had represented of its 
full size in the annexed figure, in order that naturalists may 
judge if we are right in the course that we have chosen. 
Be it as it may, we are satisfied that Tringa Schinzti is a good 
species, well distinguished from Zringa alpina by its smaller 
size, and proportionally even shorter bill. The more exten- 
sively white upper tail-coverts are the best and most conspi- 
cuous mark ; it isalso to be observed that in the summer dress 
the ferruginous colour of the upper part is paler, the black spot 
of the breast more restricted and less pure, and the neck more 
broadly streaked. Both sexes are, moreover, perfectly alike in 
colour, which is never the case in the alpina in spring dress. 
It belongs to the subgenus 7rvnga, of which we have already 
treated, and it is common to both continents, In America it 
is found from far beyond the Mississippi to the Atlantic shores, 
and is rather common in autumn on the coasts of New Jersey, 
either in flocks by themselves, or mixing in company with 
other sandpipers, with which it has every habit in common. 
The specimens that we shot in New Jersey measured seven 
inches in length and above fourteen in extent. The bill is 
very nearly, but not quite, an inch long, compressed and black 
