146 GRALLATORES. TRINGA. TRINGA. 



The Pelidna pusilla and Pelidna Temminckii of STEPHENS 

 seem to be identical. 



Occasional This delicate little species is known to us as an occasional 

 visitant during the seasons of its migration, and several in- 

 stances of its capture have been given of late years. Among 

 others, two are mentioned in the second volume of the Zoolo- 

 gical Journal, by that distinguished naturalist WILLIAM 

 YARRELL, Esq., which were killed near Chichester in 1826 ; 

 and I have in my possession a male and female killed in 

 Norfolk in May 1830. In habits it resembles the rest of 

 the tribe, but frequents more the interior lakes and rivers 

 than the shores of the ocean. It feeds on insects, worms, 

 and molluscous animals ; and though it is supposed to retire 

 foi the purpose of reproduction to the higher latitudes of 

 the north-eastern parts of Europe, the nest, colour of the 

 eggs, &c. remain still unascertained. Upon the continent it 

 is found in many parts of Germany, in its favourite locali- 

 ties, during the period of migration ; but its stay is short, 

 and it is never known to breed there. Similar as it is in 

 size and general contour to the Tringa minuta, it may al- 

 ways be recognised from that species by the whiteness of the 

 outer feathers, and the more perfectly wedge-shaped form of 

 the tail, as well as by the tarsi of this bird being considera- 

 bly shorter than those of T. minuta. 



PLATE 27.* Fig. 1. Represents the adult bird, acquiring 



the summer plumage. 



General Forehead white, speckled with pale hair-brown. Between 

 tion. the bill and eyes is a dusky streak, and over the eyes 



an indistinct whitish line. Chin and throat white, with 

 a few minute brown specks. Crown, nape of the neck, 

 and breast, ash-grey, spotted with hair-brown, and 

 tinged with wood-brown. Back, scapulars, and wing- 

 coverts hair-brown, tinged with olive; several black 

 feathers with reddish margins being interspersed, indi- 

 cating the commencement of the vernal change. Quills 



