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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 variahilis, 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. — Ib. 8vo. 2. p. 268 Tringa Cinclus, Gmel. — 
Gallinago Anglicana, Bj’iss. 5. p 309. 5. — Ib. 8vo. 2. p. 288. — Le Cincle, Bujf. 
Ois. 7. p. 553 — Le Brunette, Bujf'. Ois. 7. p. 493. — Dunlin, or Brown Sand- 
piper, Br. Zool. 2. No. 205 Ib. fol. p. 126. 1. E. 1. f. 2. — Arct. Zool. 2. No. 
391. — Rail, Syn. p. 109. A. 11 Will. p. 226. — Ib. (Angl.) p. SO.'i Red- 
necked Purre, Lath. Syn. 5. p. 185. 33. — Ib. Supp. p. 249. — Wale. Syn. 2. t. 
151 Leivin’s Br. Birds, 5. t. 176. — Flem. Br. Anim. 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 
larg-est eight inches. The hill 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. 
Vv^e 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 
