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SCHINZ’S SANDPIPER 
TRINGJ1 SCHIJVZII. 
Plate XXIV. Fig. 2. 
Tringa cinclus var. Say, in Long's Exp. I, p. 172. 
Tringa Schinzii, Buehm, Lehrb. Eur. Vog. II, p. 571. Nob. Obs. on Wils. before sp. 
213. Id. Cat. and Syn. Birds U S. sp. 249. 
Scolopax pusilla? Gmel. Syst. I, p. 663, sp. 40? 
Tringa cinclus var. a minor? Briss. 
Tringa alpina? Vieiee. (not of authors.) 
My collection. 
In Mr. Say’s valuable notes to Long’s Expedition, he describes 
as follows the bird which we have had carefully represented in the 
annexed plate in order that naturalists may judge whether or not 
we are right in referring it to the new European species hitherto 
confounded with Tringa alpina , and lately separated by Brehm in 
his work on the birds of Europe, under the name of Tringa 
Schinzii. It is so difficult to say what is a species and what a 
variety in this most intricate genus, that we shall not undertake 
to decide from a single specimen, especially when, as in this case, 
it involves the identity of the bird in the two continents. 
“ Pelidna cinclus var. Above blackish brown, plumage edged 
with cinereous or whitish; head and neck above cinereous with 
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dilated fuscous lines ; eyebrows white ; a brown line between the 
eye and corner of the mouth, above which the front is white; 
cheeks, sides of the neck and throat cinereous lineated, with 
blackish-brown, bill short, straight, black; chin, breast, belly, 
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