190 BRITISH BIRDS' EGGS. 



America; the Indian Islands, and Tangiers in Africa, are 

 also given as parts in which it has been found. The Rev. 

 P. 0. Morris says, " The eggs of this bird are described as 

 being of a yellowish colour, spotted with brown." 



THE MINUTE SANDPIPER. Tringa minuta. The Little 

 Sandpiper is, with the exception of Teinminck's, the smallest 

 of the genus to which it belongs. It visits our shores in 

 autumn, and frequents mud-banks and salt marshes. Its 

 range includes parts of the European, Asiatic, African, and 

 American continents. With its breeding haunts and habits 

 we are unacquainted. 



TEMMINCK'S SANDPIPER. Tringa TemmincMi. This spe- 

 cies has occurred at times in England, and also, we believe, 

 in Ireland. It is, as already intimated, less than the last- 

 mentioned species ; but of the character of its nest and eggs 

 we are ignorant, beyond the information to be gathered from 

 the representation which occurs in the Eev. P. O. Morris's 

 work, recently referred to, in which the figure given for the 

 egg of this bird is of a pale yellowish-green colour, marked 

 with brown of a medium tint, interspersed with darker mark- 

 ings of the same. 



THE PECTORAL SANDPIPER. Tringa pector alls. This is 

 another of those birds which we insert as belonging to our 



