CLASS II. AVES: ORDER 1. GRALLATORES. 
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throughout Eiu-ope. Temminck's Stint, T. TetnmincMi, five and a half inches long ; ash-gray 
above ; under parts white ; found 
in Europe, North Africa, and In- 
dia. The Dunlin, T. variabilis^ 
called also P'Z*r7-e, Stint, Ox-Bird, 
Sea Snipe, &c. — is eight inches 
long; above black, rufous, and 
gray ; beneath black and white ; 
found throughout Europe and 
North America. This is the 
Red-backed Sandpiper, T. al- 
pina of Audubon. 
"K- The Purple Sandpiper, T. 
mariiima — the Knot of Bewick 
— is eight and a half inches long ; 
plumage bluish-lead color ; found 
in Europe and North America ; 
abundant from Maine to New York in spring and autumn. Schinz's Sandpiper — T. Schinzii 
of Gould and others- — is six and a half inches long; dark ash above; grayish- white beneath ; re- 
sembles the Dunlin ; found throughout North America ; common in New Jersey in autumn ; 
accidental in Europe. The Pectoral Sandpiper, T. pectoralis — T. maculata of Vieillot, and 
THE BROAD-BILLED 
ANDPIPER. 
THE DUNLIN. 
sometimes called Jack-Snipe, Fat-Bird, Meadow-Snipe, Short-Neck, &c. — is nearly nine inches 
long ; dark brown above ; grayish-white beneath ; found in North America, and common along 
the Atlantic shores of the United States ; accidental in Europe. Wilson's Sandpiper or Least 
Sandpiper, T. pusilla or T. Wilsoni, is four and a half inches long ; above black ; beneath 
white. It pervades the whole of North America, and is well known on the coast by the names 
of Peep and Ox-Eye. 
To this long list of Sandpipers may be added the T. Cooperi of Baird, found on Long Island, 
and the T. Bonapartii of Schlegel, found in North America east of the Rocky Mountains. 
CURLEWS, TATLERS, STILTS, AVOCETS, GODWITS, ETC. 
Genus NUMENIUS : Numenius. — This includes the Curlews, distinguished by a long, slender 
bill, curved downward. As among the snipes and sandpipers, so with the curlews the females are 
somewhat the largest. The Common Curlew of Europe is the Courlis of the French, Ciarlotto 
