DUNLIN.
V PIBYDD RHUDDGOCH. LLYGAD Vit VCU, OP THE ANCIENT BRITISH.
PL'KKE. DUNLIN SANDPIPER. SKA SNIPE. PLOVER'S PAGE.
STINT. LEAST SNIPE. SEA LARK.
Tringa variabilis, SELBY. JENYNS.
" alpina. PENNANT. MONTAGU.
cinclus, PENNANT. MONTAGU.
Tringa— ? 1 atiabilis—Variable.
THE Dunlin, or P u r r e , the Conner the name that used to b e given
to the bird in its summer, and the latter in its winter plumage, as
if two species, has h a d its specific name assigned to it as indicative
of the great difference between its appearance in the one and in the
other season: I do not however see but that the other Sandpipers
have an equal claim to the title on t h e like account.
It is very abundant in the Arctic regions of America, and the
islands of the Polar sea, and thence through the United States to
Florida, Carolina, Cayenne, Mexico, and Domingo, and others of t he
Weal Indian Islands; as also in Europe from the Fcrroe Isles, Iceland.
Green hind, I .aplaud, and Norway, and so on to the southern
countries of the continent. It likewise belongs to Asia, being common
in Asia Minor and the region about the Caucasus, as also in t he
islands of t h e I n d i a n Ocean—Japan, Sunda, and Timor. So, too, from
t h e north coast of Africa, even, it is said, to the Cape.
The P u r r e is one of the commonest of our Sandpipers, being found
throughout England, Scotland, and Wales.
I n Ireland, it is also plentiful, as likewise in t h e Shetland Islands,
and the Orkneys.
I saw one of these birds shot by a lad, at the Nafferton beck,
ten miles from the sea, about a hundred yards from my own gate,
in the severe winter of 1853-1-, on the 4th. of J a n u a r y . In December,