56 Miscellaneous Circular 13, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
243. Dunlin (Pelidna alpina). (Fic. 42.) 
Range.—Two subspecies of dunlin occurin America; their ranges areas follows: 
European Dunlin (Pelidna alpina alpina)—KEastern Hemisphere. Breeds in Scotland, Iceland, 
Russia, and Siberia north to latitude 74°; wintersfrom Great Britain, Holland, and the Caspian Sea to 
northern Africa and Calcutta; accidentalin eastern North America (Massachusetts and New York). 
Red-backed Sandpiper (Pelidna alpina sakhalina)—North America and eastern Asia. Breeds on 
the northern coast of Siberia west to mouth of the Yenisei, andfrom Point Barrow to the mouth oithe 
Yukon, and in Boothia and Melville Peninsulas, and northern Ungava (Que.); winters on the Pacific 
coastfrom Washington to southern Lower California and from New Jersey (rarely Massachusetts) south 
to Louisiana and southern Texas, and in Asja from China and Japan to the Malay Archipelago; rarein 
migration in theinterior of the United States except about the southern end of Lake Michigan. 
The European dunlin has no distinctive vernacular names in this country; in 
Great Britain it is called, among other appellations, dunlin, ox-bird, purre, sea- 
mouse, stint; and in France, becasseau cincle (ouzel sandpiper), and brunette. 
Names for the American form are the following: 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
_ In general use.—None. 
In local use.—Becasseau (sandpiper) (Que.); blackbreast (Long Id., N. Y., Md., 
Va., Wash.); black-breasted sandpiper (Va., Wis., Wash.); black-breasted snipe 
Fig. 42.—Dunlin. 
(N. J., Md.); blackheart (Man., B. C.); blackheart-plover (Que., Ont.); brant-bird 
(Mass., N. J.); brant snipe (N. J.); California peep (Mass.); crooked-bill, crooked- 
billed snipe (Mass.); dunlin (Que., Me., Long Id., N. Y., Wash.); fall snipe (Me., 
Long Id., N. Y., N. J.); frost snipe (Long Id., N. Y., Va.); lead-back (N. Y.); little 
blackbreast (Conn., Long Id., N. Y., N. J.); petite ventre noir (petite often pro- 
nounced ‘‘ti,’’ little black-belly) (La.); redback (N. J.); simpleton (Mass.); smutty- 
breast (Va.); stib (Mass.); winter-birds (Va.); winter oxeye (Mass.); winter snipe 
(Re AL one LdseNYo ON Jes: Wash:): 
Geographic index.—B. C., blackheart; Conn., little blackbreast; La., petite ventre 
noir; Me., dunlin, fall snipe; Man., blackheart; Md., blackbreast, black-breasted 
snipe; Mass., brant-bird, California peep, crooked-bill, crooked-billed snipe, simple- 
ton, stib, winter oxeye; N. J., black-breasted snipe, brant-bird, brant snipe, fall 
snipe, little blackbreast, redback, winter snipe; V. Y., blackbreast, dunlin, fall 
snipe, frost snipe, leadback, little bla¢kbreast, winter snipe; Ont., blackheart-plover; 
Que., becasseau, blackheart-plover, dunlin; R. J., winter snipe; Va., blackbreast, 
black-breasted sandpiper, frost snipe, smuttybreast, winter-birds; Wash., black- 
breast, black-breasted sandpiper, dunlin, winter snipe; W7s., black-breasted sand- 
iper. 
ead BOOK NAMES. 
Alouette de mer (sea lark), American dunlin, American red-backed sandpiper, 
black-bellied sandpiper, East Siberian dunlin, maubéche 4 dos roux (russet-backed 
sandpiper), pelinde cincle (ouzel), purre sandpiper. 
