A78 BIRDS—SOCOLOPACIDA. 
Common spring and fall. migrant on Lake Erie, rare in spring and 
rather common in the fall in the interior of the State. In this vicinity, 
where I have seen the Duntin only in the fall, it appears in October, in 
flocks of six or eight, frequenting the gravelly shores of streams. Single 
specimens are often seen with flocks of other Sandpipers. The number 
of specimens which are sometimes brought from the vicinity of Shadeville 
and the Licking Reservoir induce me to believe that it not unfrequently 
occurs in considerable flocks. Specimens in the collections of Mr. H. HE. 
Chubb and others, from Cleveland, are in full breeding plumage. 
(Sub genus Tringa. Bill perfectiy straight, tibiz hare below, tarsus not shorter than 
middle toe). 
TRINGA CANUTUS L. 
Ried-breasted Sandpiper; Gray-back; Einot. 
Tringa canutus, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 380 (probable); addenda, 480, Re- 
print, 1861, 10; Food of Birds, ete., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1674, 572; Reprint, 1875, 12.— 
Cougs, Birds of N. W., 174, 491.—LaN@pon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 14; Revised 
List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 188; Reprint, 22. 
Tringa canutus, LINNAUS, Syst. Nat., 1, 1766, 251. 
Bill equalling or rather exceeding the head, comparatively stout; adult in summer: 
above, brownish-black, each feather tipped with ashy-white, and tinged with reddish 
on scapulars; below, uniform brownish-red, much as in the robin, fading into white on 
the flanks and crissum; upper tail-coverts white with dusky bars, tail feathers and 
secondaries grayish-ash with white edges; quills blackish, gray on the inner webs and 
with white shafts; bill and feet blackish. Young: above clear ash, with numerous 
black and white semicircles; below white, more or Jess tinged with reddish, dusky 
speckled on breast, wavy barred on sides. Length, 10-11; wing, 6-64; tail, 24, nearly 
square; bill about 1} (very variable). 
Habitat, Northern Hemisphere. Australia. New Zealand. South America. 
Rare spring and fall migrant, in May and September. Mr. Winslow 
notes this ‘‘ maritime species” as not rare on Lake Erie. I have met 
with it but once near this city, a solitary individual standing motionless 
on a sandy shore. Mr. Id. Savage, of this city, captured a fine male, 
of a pair in full breeding plumage, at the Licking Reservoir, May 27, 
1878. Prof. Snow gives it ags common in Kansas and Mr. Nelson says it 
isaregular but not common migrant on Lake Michigan. Its distribution 
is chiefly coastwise, where it is abundant, and it breeds only in high 
latitudes. 
Genus CALIDRIS. Cuvier. 
No hind toe; otherwise like sub-genus Tringa. 
