Mr. YAnnELLU's Description of a Species of Tringa. 111 
with buff; abdomen, flanks and under tail-coverts white, 
but pervaded also with the buff colour of the higher parts ; 
the sides of the neck spotted, from the dark centres of the 
feathers occupying a larger surface than upon the front ; 
. the anterior portion of the under surface of the wing rufous 
brown; the outer portion spotted, the under wing-coverts 
pure white. The shafts of the primaries on their under 
surface pearl white, the outer web dusky, the inner web 
also dusky, and plain on the part nearest the shaft, the other 
inner half of the web beautifully mottled with dark specks ; 
the secondary wing-feathers also mottled at their bases, and 
ending in sabre-shaped points, presenting a regular series 
of lines formed by alternating shades of white, black, and 
dusky bands, which in the adult bird are well defined, and 
present a beautifully variegated appearance, peculiar to 
this species. "The legs are bare for half an inch above the 
joint; the tarsus one inch and one quarter in length; the 
middle toe zths of an inch ; the whole of these parts brown; 
the nails black : the whole -— of the bird eight inches. 
t single specimen of this Saudpipr deposited in the Paris 
Museum appears to have served for the descriptions contained 
in the works already referred to; and this example is probably 
an adult bird in summer plumage. 
Wilson's excellent work on the Birds of America does not 
contain this Tringa, nor is it included in the Continuation, on 
the same judicious and valuable plan, by the Prince of Musig- 
nano; neither have I been able to find a notice of this species 
in any other ornithological work, except those before quoted. 
It is readily distinguished from all the other birds of this genus - 
by the peculiar markings of the under surface of the wings. 
The value of this acquisition to our Fauna is still further. en- 
-hanced 
