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Tringa schinzii (nec Brehm), Macgill. Brit. B. iv. p. 222 (1852) ; 
Saunders, ed. Yarrell, Brit. B. iii. p. 373 (1883). 
Tringa bonaparii, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 189 (1885). 
Adult Male. — In appearance like a small Dunlin, but distin- 
guished by the generic characters recorded above, and by the 
upper tail-coverts being entirely white, so that they contrast 
sharply with the dark rump and dark centre tail-feathers j bill, 
feet, and legs greenish-black ; iris dusky-brown. Total length, 
7 inches ; culmen, o'ps ; wing, 4'S > tAil, i'95 1 tarsus, o'g. 
The white upper tail-coverts of this species distinguishes it at 
all seasons from any of its near allies. 
Range in Great Britain — An accidental visitor from America, 
of which some dozen specimens have occurred within our 
limits. According to Mr. Howard Saunders, “ the first British 
example was shot prior to 18391 in Shropshire, while subse- 
quently three others have been obtained in Cornwall, two 
in the Scilly Islands, four at Instow in North Devon, two in 
Sussex, and one at Kingsbury reservoir in Middlesex. There is 
also a specimen in the Museum at Belfast, which is believed to 
have been killed near that city.” 
Range outside the British Islands. — 1 his is a common North 
American species, which breeds throughout the greater part of 
the Arctic Regions, becoming rarer in the north-western portion 
of the new world. In winter it ranges south through Central 
America and the West Indies to the extreme south of South 
America. 
Hahits.— Mr. D. G. Elliot, in his “ North American Shore 
Birds ” writes : — “It visits the eastern portion of North America 
on its migrations, not making a lengthy stay in any place. 
Coues observed it in Kansas migrating northwards in flocks, 
and we may suppose it ranges from the Rocky Mountains east- 
ward. Along the Atlantic coast it appears at regular periods, 
passing northward in May, and back again on its southern 
journey in July or early in August. It associates with the 
Semi-palmated Sandpiper (£. pusillus), which it somewhat 
resembles, but from which it is easily distinguished by its greater 
size. This species is one of the gentlest of all waders, appar- 
ently paying little attention to an intruder upon its haunts, but 
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