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SCOLOPACIN^. TRINGA. 
Long-legged Sandpiper, Audubon’s Stilt Sandpiper, Douglass’ Stilt Sandpiper, 
Nutt. Man. v. ii. pp. 138, 140, 141. 
Long-legged Sandpiper, Tringa himantopus, Aud. Om. Biog. v.iv. p. 332. 
336. 9. Tringa Schinzii, Brehm. Schinz’s Sandpiper. 
Plate CCLXXVIII. Male and Female. 
Bill about the length of the head, straight, and with the feet greenish- 
dusky ; general colour of upper parts brownish-black, each feather 
edged with yellowish-grey, the scapulars with light red ; wing-coverts 
greyish-brown, the shaft black ; primary and secondary coverts tipped 
with white ; quills brownish-grey, darker toward the tips, inner pri- 
maries and outer secondaries more or less edged and tipped with 
white ; tail-feathers white, with a dusky spot, excepting the central 
two, which are blackish, with a few greyish- white markings ; tail- 
feathers light grey, the two middle brownish -black towards the end ; 
sides of the head, fore neck, anterior part of breast and sides greyish- 
white, with small lanceolate central brownish-black spots ; the rest of 
the lower parts white. 
Male, 14i. 
From Labrador to St Augustine in Florida, and Kentucky, during 
autumn. Missouri. Saskatchewan Plains. Not very rare. Migra- 
tory. Breeds in high northern latitudes. 
Tringa Schinzii, Bonap. Syn. p. 249. 
Tringa Schinzii, Schinz’s Sandpiper, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 384. 
Schinz’s Sandpiper, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 109. 
Schinz’s Sandpiper, Tringa Schinzii, Aun. Om. Biog. v. iii. p. 529. 
337. 10. Tringa semipalmata, Wils. Semipalmated Sand- 
piper. 
Plate CCCCV. Adult. 
Bill as long as the head, greenish-dusky ; feet dull yellowish-green ; 
upper part of head, cheeks, hind part and sides of neck, ash-grey, 
streaked with dusky ; on the rest of the upper parts the feathers dusky- 
brown, margined with pale grey, those on the rump and 'the upper 
tail-coverts blackish-brown ; secondary coverts tipped with white ; 
alula and primary coverts brownish-black, the latter tipped with white ; 
primary quills greyish-black, with white shafts ; secondary quills more 
grey ; primaries externally edged with white towards the base, as are 
the outer secondaries in a fainter degree, as well as terminally, some 
of them also having the greater part of the inner web greyish-white ; 
two middle tail-feathers greyish-black on the inner web, their outer 
web and all the other feathers ash-grey ; anterior part of forehead, and 
,a band over the eye greyish-white ; lower parts white. 
Adult, Of, 12i 
