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piper of the supplement, which is the Tringa Pusilla, or Little 

 Stint, of "Bewick's Birds,") and the Pelidna Pusilla and 

 Temminckii, of " Shaw's Zoology," are also the same, viz. 

 the Tringa Temminckii,* of Leisler. 



We are indebted to Mr. Yarrell for the loan of the specimen 

 from which the above cut was taken. It was a young bird, 

 undergoing the change of plumage, from that of summer to 

 that of winter, in the autumn, or perhaps a little later in the 

 year. The specimen described by Montagu, in the appendix 

 to his " Ornithological Dictionary," was obtained in Devonshire; 

 and others have been captured in Norfolk, and elsewhere. 



Temminck's Tringa, in the summer plumage, has the feathers 

 of the upper parts, black, edged with ferruginous ; vent, belly, 

 under tail coverts, and throat, white; forehead, foreneck, and 

 breast, light ferruginous, dotted with black or dark brown; 

 two middle tail feathers, dark brown, edged with lighter; two 

 outer tail feathers, white. In the winter plumage, it has the 

 belly, vent, under tail coverts, chin, throat, and forehead, white, 

 the latter slightly blotched with brown ; upper parts, brown, 

 with the centre of the feathers darker ; two centre feathers of 

 the tail, longest, four centre ones, brown, lateral ones as in 

 the summer plumage. 



The following is a description of the bird lent to us by 

 Mr. Yarrell, from which our cut is taken : Belly, vent, throat, 

 under tail coverts, tips of tertials, and forehead, white, on 

 the latter intermixed with dark cinereous brown ; breast, cine- 

 reous ; crown, occiput, and wing coverts, cinereous brown, with 

 the edges of the feathers ferruginous; back, dark cinereous 

 brown, each feather margined with ferruginous, within which 



* Mr. Rennie, in his edition of Montagu, unites the two species again. 



