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AMERICAN STINT. Tringa pusilla, Wilson. Length, 

 5 in. ; bill, 0*8 in. ; wing, 3 in. ; tarsus, 0*75 in. 



ITab. North and South America; West Indies; acci- 

 dentally in Europe. 



One, Marazion Marsh, Mount's Bay, Cornwall, Oct. 10, 

 1853 : Rodd, ZooL, 1854, p. 4297 ; Yarrell, " Hist. Brit. 

 Birds " (preface to 3rd edition). In the collection of 

 Mr. Vingoe of Penzance. 



One, Northam Burrows, Devon, Sept. 1869 : Rodd, Field, 

 Oct. 23, 1869; ZooL, 1869, p. 1920; Rickards, Zool, 

 1870, p. 2025. In the collection of Rev. Marcus S. 

 Rickards of Twigworth Vicarage, Gloucester. Mr. 

 Rickards kindly brought this specimen to London, 

 shortly after he had skinned it, in order that I might 

 see it. We compared it with skins in my collection 

 from North and South America and the West Indies, 

 and were satisfied of its identity with Wilson's species. 



One, Northam Burrows, August 22, 1892 : shot by Mr. 

 W. B. Hawley Evans, Zool, 1892, p. 411. Exhibited by 

 Mr. Saunders at a meeting of the Zoological Society, 

 Proc. Zool. Sac, 1893, p. 178. 



Obs. This Little Sandpiper is the Tringa pusilla, 

 Wilson, "Amer. Orn.," v. p. 32, pi. 47 (1812), not 

 of Linnaeus ; Tringa minutilla, Vieillot, " Nouv. 

 Diction.," xxxiv. p. 452 (1819) ; Tringa ivilsoni, 

 Nuttall, "Man.," ii. p. 121 (1834), and "Encycl. 

 Method.," p. 1089 (1823). It is rather a smaller 

 bird than our Tringa minuta, vrith a more slender 

 bill, and the legs are olive-brown instead of black. 



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