482 TRINGA MINUTILLA, LEAST SANDPIPER. 



are presumably incomplete. They were mostly collected late in June 

 and early in July, by Mr. MacFarlane, in the Anderson Kiver region, 

 the Barren Grounds, and the Arctic coast, at Franklin Bay. Others 

 are from Hudson's Bay. According to the labels, the nests are, as 

 usual, a depression of the ground, lined with a few dried grasses or 

 leaves, and are generally situate in or near marshy tracts. 



TRINGA MINUTILLA, Vieill. 

 Least Sandpiper. 



Tringa minutiUa, Vieill., Nouv. Diet. cVHist. Nat. xxxiv, 1819, 452. — Gray, Gen. of B. 

 iii, 1849, 579. — Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas, Scolojiaccs, p. 48. — Sharpe & Dresser, 

 B. Eur, pt. xii, Aug. 1872.— Coues, Key, 1872, 254.— Finsch, Abb. Nat. iii, 1872, 

 65.— SCL. & Salv., p. Z. S. 1873, 456 (Peru). 



Actodromus minutUIa.Bp., Comptes Reudus, 1856. 



Actodromas minntiUa, Coues, Pr. Pbila. Acad. 1861, 191, 230. — Coues, Pr. Fbila. Acad. 

 1866, 97 ; ihid. 1871, 30.— Coues, Ibis, 1866, 269.— Coues, Pr. Bost. Soc. xii, 

 1868, 122.— Coues, Pr. Ess. Inst, v, 1868, 294.— Dress., Ibis, 1866, 37 (Texas).— 

 Coues & Pkent., Smiths. Rep. 1861, 415. — Lawr., Ann. Lye. viii, 1866, 294. — 

 Allen, Pr. Ess. Inst, iv, 1864, 77.— Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. ii, 1871, 356; iii, 1872, 

 182.— Allen, Mem. Bost. Soc. i, 1868, 501.— Verr., Pr. Ess. Inst, iii, 1862, 159.— 

 Boardm., Pr. Bost. Soc. ix, 1862, 128.— Verr., Und. 138.— Newt., P. Z. S. 1867, 

 165, pi. 15, f. 4 (egg).— Dall & Bann., Tr. Cbic. Acad, i, 1869, 292 (Alaska).— 

 Mayn., Guide, 1870, 140.— Dall, Pr. Cal. Acad. Feb. 1873 (Aleutian Islands).— 

 RiDGW., Ann. Lye. N. Y. x, 1874, 384. 



Tringa pusina, Wils. , Am. Orn. v, 1813, 32, pi. 37, f. 4 (not of Linnceus and European 

 writers).— Ord, ed. Wils. iii, 1829, 134.— Brew., ed. Wils. 1840, 347, fig. 161.— 

 Bp., Comp. Spece. 1827, 237 ; Syn. 1828, 319.— Sw. & Rich., F. B. A. ii, 1831, 

 386.— AUD., Orn. Biog. iv, 1838, 180, pi. 320 ; Syn. 1839, 237 ; B. Am. v, 1842, 

 280, pi. 337.— GiR., B. L. I. 1844, 240.— Woodh., Sitgr. Rep. 1853, 100.— Putn., 

 Pr. Ess. Inst, i, 1850, 217.— Hoy, Smiths. Rep. 1864, 438.— Hart., Br. Birds, 

 1872, 143 (European). 



Pelidna imsiUa, Bp., List, 1838, 50.— GossE, B. Jam. 1847, 348. 



Tringa tvihoni, Nutt., Man. ii, 1834, 121.— Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 721.— Coop. & Suck., N. 

 H. Wash. Tcr. 1860, 240.— Cass., Pr. Phila. Acad.xiii, 1860, 196 (Carthagena).— 

 Wheat., Ohio Agric. Rep. 1860, No. 209.— Turnb., B. E. Pa. 1869, 31.— Trippe, 

 Pr. Bost. Soc. XV, 1872, 241. 



Aciodrmnns wHsoni, Br., Comptes Rendus, 1856. 



\'^.)Tringa campesiris, Liciir., Verz. Doubl. 1823, 74 (may be bairdii or honapartii). 



Tringa )ifl?ia, Light., Nomen. Av. 1854, 92. 



Tringa georgica, LiCHT. {Gray.) 

 Extrdlimilal quotations.— Scb., P. Z. S. 1856, 311 (Cordova) ; SCL., Ibis, 1859, 229 



{Guatemala) ; Newt., ibid. 258 (Santa Cruz) ; Cab., J. f. O. iv, 422 (Cuba) ; Bry., Pr. 



Bost. Soc. vii, 1859 (Bahamas) ; ScL., P. Z. S. 1860, 263 (Orizaba); 1861, 80 (Jamaica); 



Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1861, 334 (Panama) ; Darw., Voy. Beagle, Birds, 131 (Gala- 



l)agos) ; ScL., P. Z. S. 1864, 178 (Mexico) ; Scl. & Salv., P. Z. S. 1867, 591 (Amazon) ; 



Pelz., Orn. 311 (Brazil). 



Hah. — North, Central and South America, and West Indies. Accidental in Europe 

 (Cornwall, Rood, Zool. 18.j4, 4297 ; Devon, Id., ibid. 1869, 1920 ; /rfe Harting). 

 Lieutenant Warren's Expedition. — 9046, Loup Fork. 

 Later Expeditions.— Wl\)2, North Platte. 

 Not obtaiued by Captain Rayr.olds' Expedition. 



Abundant in the Missouri region during the migrations, as every- 

 where else, in suitable places, tluoughout the United States. Finding 

 It in July, iu the Eed Eiver region, I am led to believe it may some- 

 times nest so far south, but of this I am not certain. 



This little bird is one of several si)ecies that collectively inhabit all 

 the world, and resemble each other so closely that naturalists have 

 difticulty in telling them apart. Perhaps they all sprung from the pair 

 that Noah kept, but this is doubtful. Difference of species aside, I 

 should be afraid to say how many millions of the little creatures run 

 about the sand and mud of this world to-day ; and in thinking of an^* 

 single one of them, a grain of sand comes to mind. We remember the 



