TRINGA. GRALLATORES. TRINGA. 147 



deep hair-brown, glossed with olive-green. Tail cunei- 

 form ; the middle feathers deep hair-brown, and the 

 outer ones on each side white. Belly, vent, and under 

 tail-coverts white. Legs greenish-grey, with the tarsus 

 about five-eighths of an inch long. Bill nearly the same 

 length, black. In the perfect nuptial dress, the whole 

 of the feathers of the upper parts are black in the cen- 

 tre, deeply margined with reddish-brown, and the mid- 

 dle tail-feathers also become edged with reddish-white. 



Fig. 2. Is the young bird in its first or nestling plumage. 



In this state of feather the forehead, throat, belly, vent, Young 

 and under tail- coverts, are white. Over the eyes is a 

 streak of white, with specks of ash-grey. The nape, 

 sides of the neck, and breast, are ash-grey, tinged with 

 pale wood-brown. Back, scapulars, and wing-coverts 

 hair-brown, each feather being edged with a double 

 zone of dark hair-brown and white, similar to the im- 

 mature Knot. Quills and middle tail-feathers edged 

 with white. Legs and bill paler than in the adult bird. 



MINUTE TRINGA. 



TRINGA MINUTA, Ldsler. 

 PLATE XXVII. FIGS. 3. and 4. 



Tringa minuta, Leisler, Nachtr. zu Bechst. Naturg. Deut. Heft 1. 74. 



art. 10 Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 109. sp. 155. 

 Pelidna minuta, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 12. 105. 

 Tringa fusca ? Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 733. 26 ? 

 Becasseau echassees, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 624. 

 Little Sandpiper, Mont. Ornith. Diet. Supp. Young. 

 Little and Brown Sandpiper, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 463. No. 195. and 473. 



No. 207 Lath. Syn. Sup. 250. 



Minute Dunlin, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 12. 105. 



Little Stint, BewicWs Br. Birds, 122 Fox, Newc. Mus. 114. 



THIS appears to be the bird most commonly described by 

 our writers as the Little Sandpiper ( Tringa pusilla of LIN- 



