Plate CCLXXVIII. Male and Female.
Bill about the length of the head, straight, and with the feet
greenish-dusky; general colour of upper parts brownish-black, each
feather edged with yellowish-grey, the scapulars with light red;
wing-coverts greyish-brown, the shaft black; primary and secondary
coverts tipped with white; quills brownish-grey, darker toward the
tips, inner primaries and outer secondaries more or less edged and
tipped with white; tail-feathers white, with a dusky spot, excepting
the central two, which are blackish, with a few greyish-white
markings; tail-feathers light grey, the two middle brownish-black
towards the end; sides of the head, fore neck, anterior part of breast
and sides greyish-white, with small lanceolate central brownish-black
spots; the rest of the lower parts white.
_Male_, 7-1/2, 14-3/4.
From Labrador to St Augustine in Florida, and Kentucky, during autumn.
Missouri. Saskatchewan Plains. Not very rare. Migratory. Breeds in
high northern latitudes.
Tringa Schinzii, Bonap. Syn. p. 249.
Tringa Schinzii, Schinz's Sandpiper, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor.
Amer. v. ii. p. 384.
Schinz's Sandpiper, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 109.
Schinz's Sandpiper, Tringa Schinzii, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii.
p. 529.