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GRALLATORES. 



SCOLOPACniE. 



SCOLOPACIDM. 



THE LITTLE STINT. 



Tringa minuta. 



Tringa pusilla, Little Sandpiper, 



Stint, 



minuta, Sandpiper, 



Minute Tringa, 



Little Stint, 

 Sandpiper, 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 95. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 115. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 109. 



SELBT, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 147. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 212. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Becasseau echasses, TEMM. Man. d'Oraith. vol. ii. p. 624. 



THE LITTLE SANDPIPER, or Little Stint, as it is also 

 called, from its diminutive size, goes through seasonal 

 changes of colour in its plumage like those observed to 

 take place in the Curlew Sandpiper and the Knot, already 

 described, but is more common in autumn than at any 

 other period of the year. The species was first mentioned 

 by Pennant as a British Bird from a specimen killed in 

 Cambridgeshire, and is most frequent on the southern and 

 eastern shores of this country. Indeed from the eastern 

 localities that will be quoted as within the geographical 



