110 Mr. YannzEnr' Description of a Species of Tringa. 
tional interest attaches to this specimen, since knowing it to be 
new to this country; I am besides authorised to add the testi- - 
mony of Mons. Temminck,—to whom, during his recent visit to 
London, I exhibited the example now figured,—that this bird 
is also entirely new to Europe. I have therefore ventured to 
place a notice of it before the Linnean Society, and add the 
following description. 
Ordo. GRALLATORES Vigors. 
Fam. SCOLOPACIDR, Ejusd. 
Trinca RUFESCENS. Vieill. 
5 | Bore-nreastep Steers. 
measures one » inch, and koik zm gape to the occiput is also 
. ene inch: the feathers on the top of the head are dark 
brown, approaching to black, each feather edged with very 
light brown, giving a. mottled appearance ; the back of the 
neck light brown, the dark spots formed by the centre of 
each feather. minute ; P the. pack very dark brown, the ex- 
. treme edges only of the ; s light brown: the wing- 
. — coverts brown, and inter à "appearance between 
the light brown feathers of the neck and those of the back ; 
the primaries nearly b lack , tipped with white; the shafts 
.. white; the tertials brown, edged with light brown; tail- 
 coverts brown, with lighter-coloured borders: the tail cu- 
neiform, the centre feathers black, the shafts and edges 
lighter ; the feathers on each side light brown, inclosed by 
a zone of black, and edged with white. 
The chin, sides of the neck, throat and breast, light brown tinged. 
with 
