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NederL Ind., xxv, 1863, 255; Reis. naar Geelvinkb., 1875, 8; Malay Archip., 

 1878-79, 278, 373 (Ke Island), 565— Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc/Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1868, 8, 118; 1872, 106 (Pelew Islands); Vog. Ostafr., 1870, 764, part — 

 Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., viii, 1872, 97 (Celebes).— Hume, Stray 

 Feath., i, 1873, 315 (Andaman Islands): ii, 1874, 289 (Andamans; Nicobars, 

 Dec-June); iii, 1875, 323 (Mergui). — Armstrong, Stray Feath., iv, 1876, 

 342 (Elephant Point).— Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., i, 1876, 375 

 (Duke of York Island); Tweeddale's Orn. Works, 1881, 196. — Salvadori, 

 Ann. Mus. Genov., xiv, 1879, 666. — Meyer, Ibis, 1879, 143 (Limbotto, 

 July).— Finsch, Ibis, 1881, 540 (New Britain); Vog. Siidsee, 1884, 5, 23.— 

 Seebohm, Birds Jap. Empire, 1890, 327 (Kuril Islands). 



Tringa temmincki (not of Leisler) Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 330 (n. Japan, Aug.). 



Tryngasalina Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., ii, 1826, 199 (Dauria and Desert of 

 Mongolia; Yenisei; Kamchatka and the islands opposite America). 



Tringa salina Dybowski and Parvex, Journ. fiir Orn., 1868, 337 (Darasun). — 

 Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 409; Ibis, 1873, 231 (off Cochin 

 China, May), 426 (Shanghai, April). — Blyth and Walden, Birds Burma, 

 1875, 156.— BRiJGGEMANN, Abh. nat. Ver. Bremen, v, 1876, 463. — Tacza- 

 NOWSKi, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i, 1876, 253. 



Tringa minutilla (not of Vieillot) Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 164 ^Plover 

 Bay, e. Siberia; see Stejneger, Auk, v, 1888, 308). 



PISOBIA MINUTILLA (Vieillot). 



LEAST SANDPIPER. 



Adults in summer. — Pileum light grayish fulvous, or pale buffy 

 brownish, broadly streaked with blackish, the hindneck more 

 grayish and more narrowly and less distinctly streaked; scapulars 

 and interscapulars blackish margined and somewhat barred, irreg- 

 ularly and mostly on subbasal (concealed) portion, with pale fulvous 

 or cinnamon, some of the feathers margined terminally with whitish; 

 wing-coverts deep grayish brown, paler toward margins, and blackish 

 shafts, the greater coverts rather narrowly tipped with white; tertials 

 dusky, passing into grayish brown on edges and narrowly margined 

 terminally with paler; distal half of secondaries dusky, margined 

 terminally with white, the proximal half (concealed by greater 

 coverts) pale grayish brown; primaries and primary coverts dusky, 

 the proximal primaries narrowly edged toward base with pale gray 

 or whitish; rump and median upper tail-coverts (broadly) plain 

 sooty black; lateral upper tail-coverts white with narrow mesial! 

 streaks of dusky; middle pair of rectrices dusky grayish brown, i 

 narrowly edged with paler, the remaining rectrices light grayish 

 brown with shafts white (except terminally); a broad superciliary 

 stripe of dull grayish whitish, distinct and nearly immaculate for 

 anterior half, indistinctly and narrowly streaked with dusky for pos- 

 terior (supra-auricular) portion ; loral and auricular regions pale j 

 grayish brown, the former minutely flecked the latter narrowly j 

 streaked with dusky; chest, foreneck, sides of breast, and sides of; 

 neck pale grayish brown or pale buffy grayish, narrowly (the first 



