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Tangier, laymg four eggs of a greenish blue 
colour, blotched and streaked with ash green and 
dark brown. 
DE Ne Be 
LitTLe SANDPIPER. 
Tringa Minuta, Flem. 
This diminutive species is occasionally met with 
at various times, generally in autumn, on several 
parts of the English shores. It occurs abundantly 
at the same period, and also in winter, in Holland, 
Germany, Switzerland, and Dalmatia. In France 
also it has been obtamed both in summer and 
winter. Generally found in company with the 
Dunlins and Sandpipers, it selects for its food 
aquatic insects, worms, &c. Of its breeding 
ground, or its habits at that season, very little 
is known. The egg is said to resemble that of the 
Common Sandpiper in colour and markings, but 
is much smaller in size. 
STINT, NORTH AMERICAN. 
TrRinga PUSILLA, Lin. 
This species, a native of North America, was 
recorded in the Zoologist as having occurred at 
