A specimen killed earlier in the -season, has not acquired
the rufous margins to the dark coloured: feathers of the back
and scapulars.
A young bird of the year, killed in the plumage of its first
autumn, has the beak black ; irides dark brown ; head, neck,
and upper part of the back, ash grey; wing-coverts, scapulars,
and lower part of the back, ash brown, each feather ending
with a half circle of black, and a minutej terminal line of
white; primaries dusky black; -secondaries the same, but
tipped with white; tertials ash brown, with dark shafts, and
tipped with white; central tail-feathers elongated, pointed,
ash brown, outside feathers white; chin, neck in front, breast,
and all the under surface pure white.
An adult bird, killed in October, has the head -and neck
ash grey, varied with dark brown; the back and wing-coverts
nearly uniform dusky brown, with narrow lighter-coloured
margins.
The American Stint, the Tringa pusillaoi Linneus and
Wilson,-is perfectly distinct from, either of our British species.
I t accords most nearly with Temminck’s Stint in*size
and measurements, but goes through the seasonal changes of
plumage peculiar to T . minuta, and has the outside fail-
feathers ash colour. While penning this observation, I have
specimens-of the American Stint, as well as several of both
our species, before me.
The representations of Temminck’s Stint here given, were
taken from an adult bird in spring, and a young bird in autumn.
GRALLATORES. SCOLOPACIDÆ.
SCHINZ’S SA N D P IPE R .
Tringa Schitizii, ScKinz’s Sandpiper,' - Ë ytom’s Fauna of Shropshire. An.Naf.
Hist. vol,ii. p. 5 3 . •
( yt , . t)‘ Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xxii.
,, Bécasseau de Schinz, Temm. Man. d’Orttxth. vol. iv.p.401.
M r . E y t o n in his Fauna of Shropshire, says, that a
specimen of this Sandpiper killed near Stoke,Heath is in the.
collection O f Sir Rowland Hill. • The specimen was lent to
Mr! Gould, who says,»“ W e have compared the individual
from which our figure is taken, with others killed in America,
between which we could discover no difference; it's shorter
bill and white rump will at all -times serve to , distinguish it
from the other European members of the group.’lvv
This Sandpiper, named after M. Schinz, the distinguished
jiaturalist of Switzerland, is not, however, the Tringa Schin-
z ii; of M. Brehm, but an American species, the Tringa
Schinzii of O. L. Bonaparte; Prince Canino ; and I must