DUNLIN. ATT 
met with it in Western Missouri. No other record of its occurrence in 
the interior is known tome. Dr. Coues says (Birds N. W., p. 489): 
“ This species is included in the present work on the strength of its occurrence in West- 
ern Missouri, attested by Dr. P. R. Hoy, as above cited. Its presence, however, may be 
regarded exceptional. As its scientific name implies, it is chiefly a coastwise bird, 
though also occurring on the larger inland waters. It ls said to be common on the 
shores of Lake Michigan. It is eminently a boreal bird, breeding very far to the north- 
ward, and only rarely reaching the coast of the Middle States in winter, beyond which 
its occurrence is open to question. It is rather plenty along the New England coast in 
autumn, winter and spring, when it frequents chiefly rocky shores covered with sea- 
weed, rather than the bare sand beaches. 
“The egg ot Tringa maritima is of the usual pyriform shape, and measures about 1.40 by 
1.00. The ground is clay color, shaded with olivaceous; the markings are large, num- 
erous and distinct, of rich umber-brown of different depths and intensity, occurring all 
over the shell, but being mest numerous as well as largest on the major half. With 
these spots are associated shell-markings of pale purplish-gray, and light neutral 
tint.” 
(Sub-genus Pelidna.—Bill slightly decurved, much longer than tarsus; tibie bare 
below; tarsus not shorter than middle tee.) 
TRINGA ALPINA IL. 
var. AMERICANA Cass. 
American Dunlin. 
Tringa schinzii, (Brehm.) KirTLAND, Ohio Geolog. Sarv., 1838, 160, 185. 
Tringa alpina, KIRTLAND, Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, xl, 1841, 123.—W HEATON, Ohio Agric. 
Rep. for 1860, 380, 480; Reprint, 1861, 19. 
Tringa alpina, var. americana, WHEATON, Food of Birds,etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 
572; Reprint, 1875.—LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 14; Revised List, Journ. 
Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 182; Reprint, 16. 
Fringa alpina, LINNHUS, Fa. Suec., 64. 
Pelidna schinzii, BREHM. 
Tringa alpina, var. americana, CASSIN, Baird’s B. N. A., 1258, 719. 
Adult in summer; above, chestnut, each feather with a central black field, and most 
of them whitish tipped, rump and upper tail-coverts blackish, tail feathers and wing- 
coverts ashy-gray, quills dusky with pale shafts, secondaries mostly white, and inner 
primaries edged with the same; under parts white, belly with a broad jet-black area, 
breast and jugulum thickly streaked with dusky; bill and feet black. Adult in win- 
ter, and young; above, plain ash-gray, with dark shaft lines, with or without red or 
black traces; below white, little orno trace of black on the belly; jugulum with a few 
dusky streaks and an ashy suffusion. Length, 8-9 inches; wing, 44-5; tail, 2-24; 
bill, 14-12, longer than head, compressed at base, rather depressed at the end; tibia 
bare about 4; tarsus, 1, or rather less. 
Habitat, North America, especially coastwise. Migratory and wintering in the United 
States. Breeds in high latitudes only, 
