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ORD. I. GEN. VI. SANDPIPER. 



SPE. X. LITTLE SANDPIPER. 



PI. 176. 



Tringa pufilla. Lin. Syft. I. p. 252. 



Petite Alouette de Mer de St. Domingue. Brif. Orn. V. p. 222. 



This is the fmalleft bird of the genus, meafuring fcarcely fix inches in length, 

 twelve in breadth, and appearing no bigger than a fparrow. The bill is brown 

 tipped with black : the head, and all the upper parts, are brown, edged with 

 black, and pale rufty brown : greater wing coverts, and quills, dufky, with 

 white tips : breaft, and belly, white : tail, dufky : legs, black. 



The female is fomewhat larger, and pale coloured : the head, and neck, ra- 

 ther of an aihen grey, than brown. 



It is met with in various parts of the north of Europe, in Iceland and Green- 

 land; as well as at Newfoundland and Nootka Sound, in North America; and 

 it is not uncommon in St. Domingo; but is very rare in England. The Bri- 

 tifh Zoology records one having been fhot near Cambridge, in the month of 

 September. 





