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twelfths, gradually diminishing to the lower part, where it is 1 twelfth. 
The rings, about 110 in number, are slender and unossified, the two last 
divided. The bronchi have about 15 half rings. The contractor muscles 
are thin, the sterno-tracheal slender ; and there is a pair of inferior laryn- 
geal muscles going to the first bronchial rings. 
In another individual, the intestine was 13^ inches long, the rectum 1* 
inches, the coeea 1 inch. 
The contents of the gizzard in both were fragments of shells, small black 
seeds, and much sand and gravel. 
SCHINZ’S SANDPIPER. 
Tringa Schinzii, Brehm. 
PLATE CCOXXXY. — Male and Female. 
Although I have met with this species at different times in Kentucky, and 
along our extensive shores, from the Floridas to Maine, as well as on the 
coast of Labrador, I never found it breeding. Indeed I have not met with 
it in the United States excepting in the latter part of autumn and in winter. 
Those procured in Labrador were shot in the beginning of August, and were 
all young birds, apparently about to take their departure. My drawing of 
the two individuals represented in the plate was made at St. Augustine in 
East Florida, where I procured them on the 2nd of December, 1831. I 
have always found these birds gentle and less shy than any other species of 
the genus. They fly at a considerable height with rapidity, deviating alter- 
nately to either side, and plunge toward the ground in a manner somewhat 
resembling that of the Solitary Sandpiper. When accidentally surprised, 
they start with a repeated weet, less sonorous than that of the bird just men- 
tioned. They search for food along the margins of pools, creeks, and rivers, 
or by the edges of sand-bars, and mix with other species. 
Tkinga Schinzii, Bonap. Syn., p. 249. 
Tringa Schinzii, Schinz's Sandpiper , Swains, and Rich.F. Bor. Amer., vol, ii. p. 384 . 
Schinz’s Sandpiper, Nutt. Man., vol. ii. p. 109. 
Schinz’s Sandpiper, Tringa Srhinzii, Aud. Orr. Biog., vol. iii. p. 529. 
