388 CHARADRIID. 
Mexico 1° (White !®), Vera Cruz (Sallé15), Sochiapa (Zrujillo'), Patzcuaro and 
Hacienda de los Atlixcos (F. D. G.11), Orizaba (fide Baird }°), Tehuantepec city 
(Sumichrast®), Progreso, N. Yucatan (Gawmer'!!); GuaTEMALA (Constancia °), 
Duefias, Chiapam (0. 8S. & F. D. G."), Rio Nagualate, Pacific coast (0. S.") ; 
Nicaragua, Rio Escondido (Richmond *); Costa Rica (Endres', v. Frantzius?°), 
Rio Frio (Richmond *), San José (Underwood, in litt.) ; Panama (M‘Leannan 1118), 
—SovuTH AMERICA in winter; Gatapagos Is. !!.—Incidental in Europe !!. 
The American Little Stint, as it occurs in Central America in winter, is distinguished 
from all other Sandpipers by its small size, and by its pectoral band of ashy-grey, the 
fore-neck and chest being grey, with dark shaft-streaks to the feathers. 
In the breeding-season L. minutilla retires, like its congeners of Europe and Asia, 
to the Arctic Regions, being found from Labrador to Alaska. It migrates southwards 
by way of the shores and rivers of North America, and by both eastern and western 
coasts, to Central America, wintering there and on the southern continent, extending as 
far as Brazil, as well as to Peru on the western coast. 
Salvin noticed the species at the mouth of the Rio Nagualate on the Pacific coast 
of Guatemala, where it occurred in some numbers in the month of March". It 
apparently winters in Nicaragua, as Mr. Richmond obtained specimens in December 
and March °. 
Contrary to the habits of the Little Stints in Europe, where they are rather shy 
birds and by no means easy to procure during their migrations, the American species 
is said by Mr. Elliot to occur in flocks and to be confiding and gentle in disposition. 
In habits this bird resembles the other species of small Waders, and its food is 
similar ©. 
The nest is said to be a depression in dry moss with a scanty lining of grass®. The 
eggs are four in number, pyriform, of a pale stone-grey colour, with small blotches, 
spots, and specks of dark brown, yellowish-brown, and underlying pale purple !. 
HETEROPYGIA. 
Heteropygia, Coues, Proc, Acad. Philad. 1861, p. 191; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 561 
(1896). 
The members of the genus feteropygia, a typical Neogean form, resemble large 
Stints, and like them have a short bill scarcely exceeding the tarsus in length. 
In common with Limonites they possess a hind toe, but have a longer tarsus, exceeding 
the middle toe and claw in length. 
Four species are known, one of which, H. acuminata, is an inhabitant of Eastern 
Siberia and occurs in Alaska, passing through Japan and China to winter in Australia 
and the Malay Archipelago ; the remaining three occur in Central America. 
