. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . 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 ITth of May, 1851,hesides being of comparatively small size, have less black onthe breast, and that copiously intermixed with white, thefeathers haviii*:: only a large spot toward the end. The birdsthat vi
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . 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 ITth of May, 1851,hesides being of comparatively small size, have less black onthe breast, and that copiously intermixed with white, thefeathers haviii*:: 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 Septeml)er and October the Dunlins arc often exceed-ingly fat, the quantity of adi]iose matter that covers theabdonuMi externally, and distends it from Avithin, being trulysurprising. In this respect, however, they do not ditferfrom the other species of the genus. I have found minutetestaceous mollusca in the stomach of this bird, and fre-(puutly small white worms from a cpiarter to half-an-inch inlength, along with mud and mineral particles. 215 TRINGA SUBARQUATA. THE CURLEW-BILLEDSANDPIPER. PIGMY CURLEW. S.\ subarquata. Oiucl. Syst. Nat. I. Summer. Numenius africanus. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 712. Winter. Pigmy Curlew. Mout. Orn. Diet. Supplt. Becasseau cocorli. Tringa Subarquata. Temm. Man. dOrn. II. 609. Tringa subarquata. Flcm. Brit. Anim. 107. Ciu-lew Sandpiper. Tringa subarquata. Audub. Orn. Biogr. III. 444. Curlew Tringa. Tringa subarquata. Selb. , loS. Tringa subarquata. Pigmy Cuiiew. 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 icitli the middle feathers slightly longerthan the lateral; tarsus an inch and a quarter long; billblack, feet very dark olive. Plumage in icinter broicnish-grcyabove, each
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