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, 
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. 
Trinca minuTd, Leisler. 
PLATE XXVITI.* Fries. 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 échassées, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 624. 
Little Sandpiper, Moné. Ornith. Dict. 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, Bewick’s Br. Birds, 122.—For, Newc. Mus. 114. 
Tuts appears to be the bird most commonly described by 
our writers as the Little Sandpiper (T’ringa pusilla of Lrx- 
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