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PEEP. 



LITTLE PEEP. 



Tringa jmsWa, LlXN/EUS. 



" minutilla, VIELLOT. 



Tringa ? Pusilla Small, diminutive. 



THIS is another North American species, occurring from 

 Labrador to New York and the States generally; and so on 

 to Carolina and Florida. 



A specimen was shot in this country at the end of May, 

 1856, near Penzance, in Cornwall, by Mr. W. S. Yingoe, of 

 that place, so that in future it may be enquired for as well 

 in the 'Home' as in the 'Foreign' department, and indeed 

 may very likely have been overlooked in previous instances. 



It frequents the sea-shore, the surge washing up the worms, 

 small insects, and other things which suffice it for food. 



The note resembles the name of the bird, thence given 

 to it. 



Male; length, seven inches and a half; bill, blackish, the 

 tip depressed: over the eye is a white streak. Head 011 the 

 crown, neck on the back, and nape, dark reddish brown, the 

 feathers bordered with chesnut and pale yellowish brown; chin, 

 white; throat, dull brown, with central dark spots; breast, 

 white, clouded with dark brown; back, blackish brown; on 

 the lower part the sides have the feathers tipped with white. 



The wings reach to the end of the tail; greater wing 

 coverts, tipped and edged with white; lesser wing coverts, 

 dark reddish brown, bordered with chesnut and pale yellowish 

 brown; of the primaries some are tipped and edged with 

 white, the shafts of the second and third quills pale brown, 



