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of the United States. 
Cuv. in which the outer toe is connected by a membrane 
as in the typical Totani. 
247 Tri\ga suBAaqu^T\, Ternm. Bill much longer than the 
head, subarched ; rump white ; middle tail leathers longest, 
lateral while internally 5 tarsus shorter than the bill, one inch 
and a quarter long. 
Summer plumage varied with black and rufous, beneath 
rufous: winter, cinereous, beneath white. 
Cape Curfew, Numemus africanus , Lath. Meyer and Wolf 
Ois. d'Allem. livr. xix. pi. 4. fig. 1 . adult in full dress, fig. 2 . 
young. 
Inhabits throughout the world ; extremely rare, and merely 
a transient visitor in the United States. 
248. Tringa alphva, L. Bill longer than the head, slightly 
curved at the point, entirely black ; rump blackish ; middle 
tail feathers longest; tarsus little more than one inch long. 
Summer plumage varied with black and rufous, beneath 
black and white : winter, ashy brown, beneath white. 
Red-hacked Sandpiper , Tringa alpina , IV Us. Am. Orn . 
vii. p. 25 . pi. jig* 2. summer dress ; and the Purre , Tringa 
cinclus , Wils. Am Orn. vii. p. 39. pi. w.fig. 3. winter dress. 
Inhabits both continents : very common throughout the 
United Sates and Europe. 
249. Tringa schinzii, Brehm. Bill hardly longer than the 
bead, hardly curved, entirely black ; rump blackish ; mid- 
dle tail feathers longest; tarsus three quarters of an inch 
long. 
Summer plumage varied with blackish and dull rufous ; 
beneath black and white : winter, ashy brown, beneath white. 
Schinz's Sandpiper , Tringa Schinzii , Nob. Am. Orn 3 . 
Pelidna cinclus , var. Say in Long's expedition. 
Inhabits both continents ; found from beyond the Missis- 
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