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specimens before us, from Southern Africa, show an 

 intermediate state, the plumage above being hair- 

 brown, darker along the shafts of the feathers, and 

 mixed with dark feathers cut into with reddish- 

 orange ; the long tertials are deep purplish -brown, 

 broadly edged with reddish-orange ; the pectoral 

 band is indicated by hair-brown, mingled with 

 reddish-orange. The entire length of the Minute 

 Sandpiper, is from five and a-half to six inches; 

 the length of the tarsus given by Mr. Yarrell, is ten 

 lines and a-half; by Mr. Selby as seven-eighths, 

 which agrees nearly with an African specimen. 



This bird has occurred in various parts of the^ 

 English coasts, chiefly to the south and east side of 

 the island, and Mr. Yarrell states, on the authority 

 of Mr. Heysham, that they have been several times 

 taken on the shores of the Solway. We have never 

 been so fortunate as to meet with them there, nor 

 do we hear of any instances of their capture in 

 Scotland being recorded. Mr. Thompson has found 

 them on the Irish coasts. On the European con- 

 tinent it does not appear to be of very frequent 

 occurrence ; and out of Europe, as already stated, 

 we find it in Southern Africa; and various autho- 

 rities consider Indian specimens identical.* In 

 Mr. Jerdan's catalogue, however, it is introduced 

 with a ?t 



The second species we mentioned, TEMMINCK'S 

 SANDPIPER, TRINGA TEMMINCKII, Leisler. Tern- 



* Franklin, Temminck, Selby. 

 f Madras Journal, July, 1840. p. 209. 



