TION. 



96 LITTLE SANDPIPER. Class II. 



greater coverts dusky, tipt with white; the 

 primaries and secondaries of the same colors. 

 The tail dusky ; legs black. 



This specimen was communicated to me by 

 the Rev. Mr. Green, of Trinity College, Caw- 

 bridge ; and was shot near that place m Sep- 

 tember. It is common to North America and 

 Europe."^ 



Female. [A female of this species shot on the coast 

 of Devonshire in the month of November, dif- 

 fered in some respects. 



Descrip- *' Its weight M^as six drams ; the length six 

 inches. The bill dusky, slender, rather enlarged 

 at the point, a dusky brown streak extended 

 from it to the eye, and above that an obscure 

 dirty white one ; the forehead, crown of the 

 head, back of the neck, back and scapulars, of 

 a dark cinereous color, dusky down the shafts, 

 except on the neck, which is rather lighter; 

 chin and throat white; fore part of the neck 

 and upper part of the breast-pole cinereous 

 brown ; the lower part, the belly, vent, and 

 under tail coverts, pure white ; the primaries, 

 secondaries, and the greater coverts immedi- 

 ately over them, dusky, very slightly tipped 

 with white ; the primaries edged with white on 



* A variety of it is seen in Indian drawings. J. L» 



