. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . confounded under the name of Tringa 214 TRINGA CINCLUS. Cinclus. A male shot in the Pentland Hills in June, 1840,and a female shot at Ythan Mouth on the 17th of May, 1851,besides being of comparatively small size, have less black onthe breast, and that copiously intermixed with white, thefeathers having only a large spot toward the end. The bir
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . confounded under the name of Tringa 214 TRINGA CINCLUS. Cinclus. A male shot in the Pentland Hills in June, 1840,and a female shot at Ythan Mouth on the 17th of May, 1851,besides being of comparatively small size, have less black onthe breast, and that copiously intermixed with white, thefeathers having only a large spot toward the end. The birdsthat visit the eastern coasts of Scotland in autumn seem ingeneral much larger; but observations are wanting on thissubject. In September and October the Dunlins are often exceed-ingly fat, the quantity of adipose matter that covers theabdomen externally, and distends it from within, being trulysurprising. In this respect, however, they do not differfrom the other species of the genus. I have found minutetestaceous mollusca in the stomach of this bird, and fre-quently small white worms from a quarter to half-an-inch inlength, along with mud and mineral particles. 215 TRINGA SUBARQUATA. THE CURLEW-BILLEDSANDPIPER. PIGMY CURLEW. PIGMY Scolopax subarquata. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 658. Summer. Numenius africanus. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 712. Winter. Pigmy Curlew. Mont. Orn. Diet. Supplt. Becasseau cocorli. Tringa Subarquata. Temm. Man. dOrn. II. 609. Tringa subarquata. Flem. Brit. Anim. 107. Curlew Sandpiper. Tringa subarquata. Audub. Orn. Biogr. III. 444. Curlew Tringa. Tringa subarquata. Selb. Illustr. Brit. Ornith. II. 158. Tringa subarquata. Pigmy Curlew. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 208. Pelidna subarquata. Bonap. Comp. List, 50. Bill half as long again as the head, and considerably de-curved at the end; tail with the middle feathers slightly longerthan the lateral; tarsus an inch and a quarter long; hillblack, feet very dark olive. Plumage in winter brownish-greyabove, each fea
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