482 TEINGA MINUTILLA, LEAST SANDPIPER. 



are presumably incomplete. They were mostly collected late in June 

 and early in July, by Mr. MacFarlane, in the Anderson liiver region, 

 the Barren Grounds, and the Arctic coast, at Franklin Bay. Others 

 are from Hudson's Bay. According to the labels, the nests are, as 

 usual, a depression of the ground, lined with a few dried grasses or 

 leaves, and are generally situate in or near marshy tracts. 



^ TEINGA MINUTILLA, Vieill. r- '^^•^ii- '4»<fc^ X^''' 

 least SaDdpiper. 



Tringa minutilla, Vieu-l., Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv, 1819, 452.— Gray, Geu. of B. 

 iii, 1849, 579.— SCHL., Mus. Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, p. 48.— Sharpe & Dresser, 

 B. Eur. pt. xii, Aug. 1872.— CouES, Key, 1872, 254.— Finsch, Abh. Nat. iii, 1872, 

 65.— SCL. & Salv., p. Z. S. 1873, 456 (Peru). 



Actodromus minutilla. Bp., Comptes Eendus, 1856. 



Actodromas minutilla, Coues, Pr. Pbila. Acad. 1861, 191, 230.— CouES, Pr. Fhila. Acad. 

 1866, 97 ; ihUl. 1871, 30.— Coues, Ibis, 1866, 269.— CouBS, Pr. Bost. Soc. xii, 

 1868, 122.— Coues, Pr. Ess. Inst, v, 1868, 294.— Dress., Ibis, 1866, 37 (Texas).— 

 Coues & Prext., Smiths. Eep. 1861, 415. — Lawr., Ann. Lye. viii, 1866, 294. — , 

 Allen, Pr. Ess. Inst, iv, 1864, 77.— Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. ii, 1871, 356 ; iii, 1872, Jj^ 

 182.— Allh^, Mem. Bost. Soc. i, 1868, 501.— Vere., Pr. Ess. Inst, iii, 1862, 159.— S r i- 

 BOARDM., Pr. Bost. Soc. ix, 1862, 128.— Veer., ibid. 138.— Newt., P. Z. S. 1867, '^l, 

 165, pi. 15, f. 4 (egg).— Dall & Baxn., Tr. Chio. Acad, i, 1869, 292 (Alaska).— /■J> 

 Mayn., Guide, 1870, 140.— Dall, Pr. Cal. Acad. Feb. 1873 (Aleutian Islands).- 

 EiDGW., Ann. Lye. N. Y. x, 1874, 384. 



Tringa imailla, Wils., Am. Orn. v, 1813, 32, pi. 37, f. 4 (not of lAnnwus and European 

 ■writers).— Oed, ed. Wils. iii, L-^^O, 134.— Beew., ed. Wils. 1840, 347, fig. 161.— 

 Bp., Comp. Specc. I«a7, 237 ; Syn. 1828, 319.— Sw. & EiCH., F. B. A. ii, 1831, 

 386.— AUD., Orn. Biog. iv, 1838, 180, pi. 320 ; Syn. 1839, 237 ; B. Am. v, 1842, 

 280, pi. 337.— GiR., B. L. I. 1844, 240.— WoODH., Sitgr. Eep. 1853, 100.— Putn., 

 Pr. Ess. lust, i, 1856, 217.— HoY, Smiths. Rep. 1864, 438.— Hart., Br. Birds, 

 1872, 143 (European). 



Pelidna pusilla, Bp., List, 1838, 50.— GossB, B. Jam. 1847, 348. 



Tringa wiUoni, NuTT., Man. ii, 1834, 121.— Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 721.— Coop. & Sock., N. 

 H. Wash. Ter. 1860, 240.— Cass., Pr. Phila. Acad, xiii, 1860, 196 (CartUagena).— 

 AVhbat., Ohio Agric. Eep. 1860, No. 209.— Turnb., B. E. Pa. 1869, 31.— Tkippb, 

 Pr. Bost. Soc. XV, 1872, 241. 



Actodromus ivilsoni, Bp., Comptes Eendus, 1856. 



{1)Tringa campestris, LiciiT., Verz. Doubl. 1823, 74 (may be iairdii or ionapartW). 



Tringa nana, LiCHT., Nomen. Av. 1854, 92. 



Tringa georgica, Licht. (Gray.) 

 Exiralimilal quotations.— Sci.., P. Z. S. 1856, 311 (Cordova) ; ScL., Ibis, 1859, 229 



(Guatemala) ; Newt., ibid. 258 (Santa Cruz) ; Cab., J. f. O. iv, 422 (Cuba) ; Bry., Pr. 



Bost. Soc. vii, 1859 (Bahamas) ; ScL., P. Z. S. 1860, 263 (Orizaba) ; 1861, 80 (Jamaica) ; 



Lawe., Ann. Lvc. N. Y. 1861, 334 (Panama) ; Darw., Voy. Beagle, Birds, 131 (Gala- 

 pagos) ; ScL., P. Z. S. 1864, 178 (Mexico) ; SCL. & Salv., P. Z. S. 1867, 591 (Amazon) ; 



Pelz_, Orn. 311 (Brazil). 



Sab. — North, Central and South America, and West Indies. Accidental in Europe 

 (Coruwall, Eodd, Zool. 1854, 4297 ; Devon, Id., ibid. 1869, 1920 ; fide Harting). 

 Lieutenant Warren's Expedition. — 9046, Loup Fork. 

 Laltr Expeditions. — 00792, North Platte. 

 lSo% obtaiued by Captain Eaytolds' Expedition. 



Abundant in the Missouri region during the migrations, as every- 

 where else, in suitable places, throughout the United States. Finding 

 it in July, in the Eed River region, I am led to believe it may some- 

 times nest so far south, but of this I am not certain. 



This little bird is one of several species that collectively inhabit all 

 the world, and resemble each other so closely that naturalists have 

 difticulty in telling them apart. Perhaps they all sprung from the pair 

 that Noah kept, but this is doubtful. Difference of species aside, I 

 should be afraid to say how many millions of the little creatures ran 

 about the sand and mud of this world to-day ; and in thinking of any 

 single one of them, a grain of sand comes to mind. We remember the 



