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TRINGJ5. 
The true Tringce , or Maritime Sandpipers, may 
be placed next. They are gregarious at all times, 
except during incubation, assembling in vast flocks, 
and frequenting, almost entirely, the sea shores, or 
marshes adjacent to them, a few being found in 
pairs, on the shores of our largest inland lakes, while 
breeding. Their changes during summer are black 
and chestnut, or grey and black. 
Thing a op authors. — Generic characters . — Bill 
of the same length, or slightly longer than the 
head, often gently curved, soft and pliable; 
wings rather long, sharp pointed, the first quill 
longest ; tarsi and feet of middle length (pro- 
portionally shorter than in Limosa, Totanus, or 
Machetes;) toes slightly joined at the base, and 
narrowly fringed on the edges with a mem- 
brane ; hallux small, articulated on the tarsus. 
Types, T. canutus, varialilu, maritima, &c. 
Note . — Gregarious in winter. Cosmopolite. 
