. British birds with their nests and eggs . , as the most abundant and most unsuspicious, oftenest seems tofind its way into the bag, and seems, by right of user, to havethe best title to the terms. It is a bird of wide range, breeding throughout thenorthern and central parts of Burope, Asia, and America, wintering in all but thenorthernmost parts of them, and, in addition, in North Africa down to Somaliland,India, South China, and America down to Panama. In the British MuseumCatalogue of Birds, (Vol. xxii) the Bastern Asiatic and American Dunlins areseparated from the rest unde
. British birds with their nests and eggs . , as the most abundant and most unsuspicious, oftenest seems tofind its way into the bag, and seems, by right of user, to havethe best title to the terms. It is a bird of wide range, breeding throughout thenorthern and central parts of Burope, Asia, and America, wintering in all but thenorthernmost parts of them, and, in addition, in North Africa down to Somaliland,India, South China, and America down to Panama. In the British MuseumCatalogue of Birds, (Vol. xxii) the Bastern Asiatic and American Dunlins areseparated from the rest under the title of Pelidna americana, on the score of Britain the Dunlin breeds in most mountainous parts, but more abundantlynorthwards. In the south it has been found nesting in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset,Wales, Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Cumberland; the eggs have also beentaken in Lincolnshire. I have not uncommonly, when fishing, seen Dunlins on themoors of South Northumberland, which I had no doubt were breeding; and they. a: en -1 Z Q DC iLl H2 a: D -3 The Dunlin. 123 breed on and near the Cheviots most certainly. In Scotland they nest in mostsuitable localities, especially on the islands; in Ireland only in the north. Description of adult in summer: bill black; iris dark umber; upper partsgenerally rufous, mingled with creamy-white, each feather with a black centre,which is not conspicuously shewn in the feathers of the back and tertiaries; norufous on the back of the neck; wings grey-brown, with light grey margins tothe feathers and a good deal of white on the secondaries; chin white; sides ofhead, neck, and upper breast, white, spotted and streaked longitudinally withblack, most boldly on the breast; rest of under parts white, with a large blackgorget on the lower breast, somewhat in the form of a horse-shoe; a few blackstreaks on the flanks; tail grey, the two central feathers browner and darker thanthe rest; feet and legs black. Length 6^-7J inches, clos
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