. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. CHARADRIID^. 58t. BONAPARTE'S SANDPIPER. Tringa fuscic6llis, Vieillot. This American species resembles a Dunlin in winter-plumage, but may always be distinguished by its smaller size, shorter bill and white upper tail-coverts. The first British example on record was shot prior to 1839, in Shropshire ; while subsequently three have been obtained in Cornwall, two in the Scilly Islands, four at Instow in North Devon, two in Sussex, and one at Kingsbury Reservoir in Middlesex. There is a specimen in the Belfast Museum, believed to have been killed n
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. CHARADRIID^. 58t. BONAPARTE'S SANDPIPER. Tringa fuscic6llis, Vieillot. This American species resembles a Dunlin in winter-plumage, but may always be distinguished by its smaller size, shorter bill and white upper tail-coverts. The first British example on record was shot prior to 1839, in Shropshire ; while subsequently three have been obtained in Cornwall, two in the Scilly Islands, four at Instow in North Devon, two in Sussex, and one at Kingsbury Reservoir in Middlesex. There is a specimen in the Belfast Museum, believed to have been killed near that city prior to April 15th 1836. On the Continent of Europe this Sandpiper has not yet been observed, for the T. schinzi of Brehm and some other ornithologists is a small form of the Dunlin; though our bird is the T. schinzi of Bonaparte, and under the name of Schinz's Sandpiper was figured and described in the ist, 2nd and 3rd Editions of ' Yarrell.' On June 28th 1897, a solitary female of this species was shot near Cape Flora, in the south of Franz Josef Land (Ibis i8g8, p. 259) : a very remarkable occurrence, for the bird has not yet been identified in any part of Siberia. Even in Alaska it is rare, only two specimens having been obtained by Mr. Murdoch at Point Barrow; but it is generally distributed in Arctic America from the Mackenzie valley (where it breeds abundantly) eastward; while it occurs in Greenland in autumn, and is said to have visited Iceland. On migration it is common in the Mississippi valley, and along the whole Atlantic coast to Florida; ranging southward to the West. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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