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SCHINZ'S SANDPIPER.
TRINGA SCHINZIL
Plate XXIV. Fig. 2.
Trina cincles var. SAY, in Long's Exp. I, p. 172.
Tringa &kinzii, B   , Lehrb. Eur. Vog. II, p. 571. N OB. Ob.. on Wils.
before sp.
213. ID. Cat. and Syn. Birds U S. sp. 249
S&olopax pusilla? GMEL. Syst. I, p. 663, sp. 40?
Tringa cindlu
Tringa alpino
inor? BRISS.
. (not of authors.)
My collection.
IN M. Say's valuable notes to Long's Expedition, he describes
as follows the bird which we have had carefully represented in the
annexed plate in order that naturalists may judge whether or not
we are right in referring it to the new European species hitherto
confounded with Tringa alpina, and lately separated by Brehm in
his work on the birds of Europe, under the name of Tringa
Schinzii. It is so difficult to say what is a species and what a
variety in this most intricate genus, that we
to decide from, single specimen, especially Mi
t undertake
in this case,
it involves the Identity of the bird in the two continents.
"Pelidna cinclus var. Above blackish brown, plumage  dged
with cinereous or whitish; head and neck above cinereous with
ated fuscous lines; eyebrows
e and corner of the mouth,
Leks, sides of the neck - an(
tckish-brown, bill short, stro
ie between the
ront is white;
lineated with
breast, belly,
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