iS4 SANDPIPER. 



Place, This is pfetty common about the fait lakes of the province of 



Dauria, in fpring. It is gregarious, and often found in company 

 with other fpecies. 



32. Tringa pufilla, Lin. Syft. 1. p. 252. 20. 



LITTLE S, La petite Alouette de Mer de St. Bomingue, Brif. Orn. v. p. 222. pi. 2§„ 



fig. 2. 

 Little Sandpiper, Br. Zool. ii. N° 207. — Gen. Birds, p. 65. pi. \2.—JrSit 

 Zool. N° 397. 



Description. C IZE of a Hedge Sparrow: length five inches and eight lines. 

 Bill brown, with a black tip : the head and all the upper parts 

 brown, edged with black and pale rufty brown : greater wing co- 

 verts and all the quills duiky, tipped with white : tail dufky i 

 breaft and belly white : legs black. 

 Place. This bird is found in England, though not very frequent. The 



Britijh Zoology mentions one having been fhot near Cambridge in 

 September. 



It is alfo met with in St. Domingo, but differs in the white on 

 the under parts being tinged with rufous ; the three outer tail 

 feathers having white lhafts ; and the rump a little mottled. 

 Our circumnavigators found it in Nootka Sound. It is likewife 

 met with in the northern parts of Europe ; and is both in Iceland 

 and Greenland. 



Tringa 



