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DUNLIN. 



The Dung Hunter is found in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Russia, 

 as far as Kamtschatka ; it is also common in Greenland. 

 DUNKER, or DUN-CUR.— A name for the Pochard. 

 DUNLIN (Tringa variabilis, Meyer.) 



Tringa alpina, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 249. 11 Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 676 Ind. Orn. 2. p. 



736. — Wils. Amer. Orn. 7. p. 25 Cinclus torquatus and Cinclus minor, 



Briss. 5. p. 216. 11. t. 19. f. 2 lb. 8vo. 2. p. 268 Tringa Cinclus, Gmel 



Gallinago Anglicana, Briss.5. p 309. 5.— lb. 8vo. 2. p. 288 Le Cincle, Buff. 



Ois. 7. p. 553 Le Brunette, Buff. Ois. 7. p. 493 Dunlin, or Brown Sand- 

 piper, Br. Zool. 2. No. 205 lb. fol. p. 126. 1. E. 1. f. 2 Arct. Zool. 2. No. 



391 Rati, Syn. p. 109. A. 11 Will. p. 226 lb. (Angl.) p. 305 Red- 

 necked Purre, Lath. Syn. 5. p. 185. 33.— lb. Supp. p. 249 Wale. Syn. 2. t. 



151 Lewin's Br. Birds, 5. t. 176. — Flem. Br. Anini. p. 108 Bewick's Br. 



Birds, 2. p. 117. 



Provincial. — Purre. Least Snipe. Ox-bird. Sea Snipe. Pickerel. 



Bull's Eye. 



This species of Sandpiper weighs from nine to eleven drams, and we 

 have had specimens weighing- an ounce and a half ; the length of the 

 largest eight inches. The bill full an inch in length, slender, a little 

 bent downwards, and of a dusky colour ; irides dusky ; the upper part 

 of the head, and whole plumage above, ferruginous brown ; the former 

 and hind neck streaked with dusky, the rest spotted with black ; the 

 cheeks, under side of the neck, and breast, whitish, streaked with black ; 

 those on the neck are small, and more inclining to dusky ; the wing 

 coverts greyish brown, edged with lighter ; the quills black ; the four 

 first wholly so, the rest edged more or less with white on their exterior 

 webs ; the base of the interior webs of the same colour ; the belly and 

 vent white ; the former marked with large black spots, the latter with 

 a few dusky streaks ; the tail consists of twelve feathers, the two 

 middle ones longest and dusky, the others cinereous, all edged with 

 white ; legs dusky ; toes almost divided to their origin. 



The female differs little or none from the other sex. The young 

 birds have no spots on the belly or sides at first, and when they begin 

 to appear are small; the upper parts are also lighter, dashed with 

 cinereous ; the middle of the feathers dusky. 



This species does not appear so plentiful as many others ; but we 

 have seen it on our coasts in every month of the year, except from the 

 latter end of June to the beginning of August ; most frequent in the 

 spring and autumn. 



We once killed several of these birds on the mountains in Scotland, 

 near Inverness, in the month of August. May they not breed in the 

 northern parts of this kingdom ? 



Mr. Pennant says he has received the eggs from Denmark; and 

 adds, they lay four in number, of a dirty white, blotched with brown 



