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straight, below pale ferruginous ; inner webs of the primaries 

 mottled; rump blackish-; legs and feet brown; tarsus 15 lines 

 long. Summer plumage varied with black and brownish rufous ; 

 beneath rufous much paler on the abdomen. "Winter dress un- 

 known." — (Nuttall). From the geographical range of this species 

 I have no doubt but that it visits this District, although I have 

 not hitherto met with a specimen of it. 



T. Pusilla. Little Sandpiper. 

 T. Temminckii of Leisler. 

 Tringa Wilsonii. Baird ? 

 v.s.p. Upper mandible blackish ; lower one orange at the 

 base, black at the tip ; bill shorter than the head ; legs and feet 

 brownish ; irides hazel ; eggs unknown. 



Dorsal aspect. Line from the nostrils over and beyond the 

 eye cinereous white; crown and interscapulary region black 

 broadly edged and tipped with ferruginous ; nuchal region cine- 

 reous ; rump, scapulars blackish brown, edged with ferruginous 

 on both vanes, except at the tip of the outer vane which is white ; 

 small and great wing coverts dusky tipped with ferruginous ; 

 lower row of great wing coverts tipped with white ; central tail 

 coverts black ; lateral ones white ; tail rounded, the two central 

 feathers blackish brown, tipped with ferruginous white ; lateral 

 ones cinereous deepening in tint from the sides over to the center 

 ones ; quills plain clove brown with white shafts. 



Ventral aspect. Cheeks, breast, and sides of the breast cine- 

 reous with dusky streaks ; chin and remainder of the ventral as- 

 pect pure white. 



1st primary longest; the ^others graduated ; long scapulars 

 longer than the 4th but shorter than the 3rd primary. Length 

 6 inches ; alar expanse lOj inches ; length of bill | inch. The 

 Tringa minuta and Tringa Wilsonii^ from their geographical 

 range, may visit us, but I cannot state so with certainty, having 

 never met with either species. 



T. rufa. Red-breasted Sandpiper. 



T. cinerea. Winter plumage. Linnaeus and Wilson ! ! 



T. camita, islandica, cinerea, australis, noevia, grisea of 



Gmelin ! 

 Macrorhamphus griseus. Baird ! 

 v.s.p. Bill, legs and feet blackish ; irides hazel ; eggs 4 dun 

 colour spotted red. 

 Can. Nat. 24 Vo YII. 



