722 U S. P. R. K. EXP. AND SURVEYS — ZOOLOGY GENERAL REPORT. 
List of specimens. 
Caul. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
When 
collected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig'l 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
1675 
1509 
1674 
1510 
1511 
10443 
1179 
10116 
9046 
8S01 
8789 
6686 
5568 
6679 
6688 
6681 
6678 
$ 
3 
$ 
Q 
Carlisle, Pa... 
S. P. Baird 
5.88 
5.60 
6.00 
6.16 
11.16 
11.16 
11.25 
11.80 
11.50 
3.50 
3.50 
3.56 
3.50 
3.64 
Aug. 19,1844 
do 
do 
3 
Cape May, N.J 
do 
do 
J. K. Townsend 
N. W. University. 
8 
Dr. Hayden .... 
Dr. Cooper .... 
5.75 
5.84 
6.00 
10.84 
11.12 
3.50 
3.50 
3.75 
Iris deep brown 
Iris brown ; bill and feet 
black. 
Texas 
8 
766 
376 
375 
89 
377 
561 
5.08 
10.00 
Fort Steilacoom, W. T. 
May 5 
3 
Dr. Suckley 
5.54 
11.36 
Gov. Stevens 
3 
Puget's Sound 
Aug. —,1856 
1 
TRINGA BONAPARTII, S oh leg el. 
Tringa schinzii, "Brehm," Bon. Syn. 1828, (not of Brehm.)— In Am. Orn IV, 1832,69; pi. lxix.— Sw. F. Bor. Am. 
II, 384.— Nutt. Man. II, 109.— Aud. Orn. Biog. Ill, 1835, 529; pi. 278.— Ib. Syn. 236— Ib. Birds 
Amer. V, 1842, 275 ; pi. 335. 
Pelidna schinzii, Bon. Comp. List, 1838. 
Tringa cinclus, var. Say, Long's Exped. 1823. 
Tringa bonapartii, Schlegel, Rev. Crit. Ois. Eur. 1844, 89. 
f Scolopax pusilla, Gm. Syst. I, 1788, 063. 
Figures — Bonap. Am. Orn. IV, pi. 24, fig. 2.— Aud. B. of Am. pi. 278 ; oct. ed. V, pi 335.— Gould B. of Eur. IV, pi. 330. 
Sp. Ch. — Smaller; bill slightly arched towards the tip, which is somewhat enlarged and flattened, about the length of the head; 
grooves in both mandibles long and narrow ; wings long; secondary quills obliquely incised at the ends; tail rather longer than 
usual in this group, with the feathers broad ; legs rather long and slender ; toes free at base ; hind toe very small. Upper parts 
light ashy brown, darker on the rump ; nearly all the feathers with ovate or wide lanceolate central spots of brownish black, and 
many of them edged with bright yellowish red; upper tail coverts white. Under parts white, with numerous small spots of dark 
brown on the neck before, breast, and sides, somewhat disposed to form transverse bands on the last. Quills brownish black, 
darker at the tips; shaft of outer primary white, of others light brown; middle feathers of tail brownish black; outer feathers 
jighter and edged with ashy white; under wing coverts and axillaries white; bill and feet greenish black. Total length about 
7 inches ; wiug, 4| ; tail, 2| ; bill, 1 ; tarsus rather less than an inch. 
Hob. — North America, east of the Rocky mountains. 
This is an abundant little sandpiper, sadly misnamed by American ornithologists. It is 
really very little like Tringa schinzii, Brehm, (figured in Naumann's Birds of Germany, pi. 
187,) which is merely a smaller variety, or perhaps only smaller specimens of the common 
Tringa alpina of Europe and America. 
This bird appears to be restricted to the countries east of the Rocky mountains. 
