. A history of British birds . coverts, and the two middle tail-feathers,which are the longest, black; the rest of the tail-feathersash-brown tipped with yellowish-white ; chin white; thecheeks, sides and front of the neck, and the upper part ofthe breast, greyish-white tinged with brown and streakedwith dusky-black in the line of the shaft of each feather ;lower part of the breast, belly, and under tail-coverts white ;legs and toes yellowish-brown ; claws black. The whole length varies from eight and three-quarters tonine and a quarter inches : the wing from the carpal jointto the end of the
. A history of British birds . coverts, and the two middle tail-feathers,which are the longest, black; the rest of the tail-feathersash-brown tipped with yellowish-white ; chin white; thecheeks, sides and front of the neck, and the upper part ofthe breast, greyish-white tinged with brown and streakedwith dusky-black in the line of the shaft of each feather ;lower part of the breast, belly, and under tail-coverts white ;legs and toes yellowish-brown ; claws black. The whole length varies from eight and three-quarters tonine and a quarter inches : the wing from the carpal jointto the end of the first quill-feather, which is the longest,five inches and three-eighths to five and of the Don-mouth specimen, two and a quarterounces. The principal distinction between the adult in breeding-dress and the immature, consists in the markings of thefeathers on the breast, which are arrow-headed in the former,but merely streaked down the centre of each feather in thelatter. LIMWOLM. BONAPARTES SANDPIPER. 373. Tringa fuscicollis, Vieillot.*BONAPARTES SANDPIPER. Tringa Schinzii. Bonapartes Sandpiper is another American specieswhich was first recorded as occurring in the British Ishindsby the late Mr. Gould, who described and figured a specimenkilled near Stoke Heath, which is in the collection of LordHill. He says, We have compared the individual from whichour figure is taken with others killed in America, betweenwhich we could discover no difference; its shorter bill andwhite rump will at all times serve to distinguish it from theother European members of the group (B. Europe, v.). ■ Nouv. Diet, xxxiv. p. 461 (1819) Especial reference is there made to thewhite upper tail-coverts characteristic of this species. In former Editions of thiswork the name of Tringa schinzi, by which Bonaparte (Ann. Lye. N. H. NewYork, ii. p. 317, 1828) designated this species, was employed ; but as that namehad already been conferred by Brehm (Beitriige Vogelk. iii. p. , 1822)
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