96. 
FEMALE. 
DeEscriP- 
TION. 
4 
of 
LITTLE SANDPIPER. CiassIL 
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, Cam- 
bridge ; and was shot near that place in Sep- 
tember. It is common to North America and 
Hurope.* 
[A female of this species shot on the coast 
of Devonshire in the month of November, dif- 
fered in some respects. | 
“Its weight was 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 fart 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. 
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