TRINGINJE. TRINGA. 
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Tringa Cinclus and Alpina, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 249, 251. 
—Tringa Variabilis, Teinm. Man. d’Ornith. ii. 612. — Tringa 
Cinclus, Alpina, and ruficollis, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 735, 
736. — Tringa Cinclus, Dunlin Sandpiper, MacGillivray, Brit. 
Birds, iv. 
182. Tringa subarquata. Curlew-billed Sandpiper. 
Bill half as long again as the head, and considerably de~ 
curved at the end ; tail with the middle feathers slightly 
longer than the lateral ; tarsus an inch and a quarter long ; 
bill black, feet very dark olive. In winter, the plumage 
brownish-grey above, each feather with a dusky streak ; the 
sides and fore part of the neck, with a small portion of the 
breast, greyish-white, streaked with brownish-grey ; the 
throat, breast, and abdomen, white ; the tail-coverts white, 
the tail brownish-grey. In summer, the upper parts of the 
body black, mottled and streaked with light red ; the sides 
of the head, the fore part and sides of the neck, and the 
breast, bright yellowish-red, the neck faintly streaked with 
dusky; the tail -coverts wdiite, spotted with brown and red; 
the tail brownish-grey glossed with green. Young with the 
feathers of the upper parts greyish-black glossed with green, 
darker toward the margins, and edged with white ; the fore 
part of the neck pale reddish, faintly streaked with dusky, 
the rest of the lower parts white, as are the upper tail-coverts, 
which are very narrowly tipped with dusky. 
Male, 8 ^, 16 T %, lf%? I 4 ? tV Female, 8 ^, 16-J. 
In its summer plumage this species is easily distinguished 
from the Dunlin, the breast being red in the one and black 
in the other ; and at all seasons it may be known by its white 
upper tail-coverts. It is not extremely uncommon on our 
coasts during winter, but is probably often confounded with 
the species just named. It arrives in the beginning of Sep- 
tember, and departs in the end of April for more northern 
countries, it not having been met with breeding in any part 
of Scotland. Yet it is very extensively distributed, being 
found in India, at the Cape of Good Hope, in various parts 
of Europe, and in North America. Its habits are precisely 
similar to those of the Dunlin. 
Pigmy Curlew. Pigmy Sandpiper. 
Scolopax subarquata, 3 s ft§££ ‘ Syst. Nat. i. 658.— Tringa 
subarquata and Numenius Africanus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 
712. — Tringa subarquata, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. ii. 609.— 
