SANDPIPER. 291 



50.— TEMMINCK'S SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Temminckii, Becasseau Temrnia, Tern. Man. 401. Id. Ed. 2d. p. 622. 

 — — pusilla, Bechst. Deuts. 2d ed. iv. p. 308. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill shorter than the head, a 

 little bent downwards towards the point, and brown; plumage on the 

 upper parts of the body light ash-colour, the feathers marked with 

 dusky brown down the shafts; neck and breast rufous ash; throat 

 and under parts of the body white ; tail a little cuneiform, the four 

 middle feathers cinereous brown, the three on each side pure white ; 

 leas brown. Male and female much alike. 



The above description is of the bird in full plumage, but it varies 

 in its progress thereto, in the manner of most birds of this Genus. 



Inhabits the colder regions ; found at the two seasons of their 

 migrating, in different parts of Germany, and most likely also those 

 of France ; sometimes seen on the Lake of Geneva ; but not yet met 

 with on the coasts of Holland. 



51.— LITTLE SANDPIPER. 



Tringa pusilla, Ind. Orn. ii. 737. Lin. i. 252. Gm. Lin. i. 681. 



Clnclus Dominicensis minor, Bris. v. 222.- t. 25. f. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 269. 



Tringa minuta, Frankl. Narr. App. p. 686. 



Der kleine Strandlaufer, Bechst. Deuts. iii. 178. t. x. Id. Ed. 2d. 623 ? Id. Gem 



Nat. s. 433. 

 Tringa minor candicans, in Etruria Gambechio, Gerin. iv. t. 452. 

 Little Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. v: 184. Br. Zool. ii. No. 207. Id. 1812. ii. p. 95. Gen. 



of Birds, 65. pi. 12. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 357. Lewin, v. pi. 175. Orn. Diet. 



Bewick, ii. pi. p. 122. Amer. Orn. v. p. 32. pi. 37. f. 4. 



SIZE of the Hedge Sparrow ; length six inches and a half; 

 breadth thirteen. Bill ten lines long, brown, with a black point, 

 the base greenish ; irides grey brown ; the upper parts of the body 



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