VI PREFACE. 



M.D., of Leeds ; and a detailed account, with a figure of 

 the species, appeared in the Naturalist for August, 1855. 

 This Owl was preserved by Mr. Mathew Smith, of 

 Leeds, and recognised by Mr. Denny and Mr. Graham, 

 Naturalists, residing at Leeds. The bird inhabits the 

 Oregon and the Columbia River districts, and is met with 

 abundantly in the British provinces of New Brunswick, 

 Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Labrador. 



TRINGA PUSILLA, Linn. Wilson and Audubon. This 







little Sandpiper was recorded in the Zoologist as having 

 occurred at Penzance. E. H. Rodd, Esq. very kindly 

 sent me a letter on the subject, promising me a sight of 

 the specimen. During the last week of last month, May, 

 1856, Mr. "W. S. Vingoe, of Penzance, who shot the bird 

 in autumn on the shore there, being in London, brought 

 me the specimen to look at. It was well preserved, and 

 bore on the feathers of its back and wing-coverts the 

 reddish colour and buff margins peculiar to the Tringa 

 minuta of Leisler in its summer and autumn plumage, 

 which species it resembles, but is smaller in size. The 

 tarsi are longer than those of the Tringa Temminckii of 

 Leisler, but shorter than those of Tringa minuta. 



This diminutive Sandpiper, called Little Peep, and 

 Peep, in America, from the sound of its single note, was 

 found by Audubon in Labrador in the breeding-season ; 

 on the shores of New Jersey and New York ; on the 

 banks of the Ohio ; in South Carolina in spring and 

 autumn, and in Florida in winter. It is the Tringa 

 pusilla of the 13th edition of the SYSTEMA NATURE, p. 

 sp. 20, Habitat in DOMINGO, and is the only very 



