GRALLATORES. 385 



same breadth ; central pair rather acute, and longer than the others, which are rounded. 

 A very slight rudiment of a iveb between the middle and outer toes. Hind-toe short and 

 slender, with a very small nail. 









Dimensions. 













Inch. 



Lin. 





Inch. 



Lin. 



Inch. 



Lin. 



Length, total 



7 



6 



Length of bill to rictus . 







Hi 



Length of middle toe . 



H 



,, of tail . 



. 2 







,, of tarsus 



. 



10* 



,, of its nail . . 



2-L 



"•1 



,, of wing 



4 



G 



„ of naked thigh . 







i 



„ of hind toe and tail 



2i 



,, of bill above . 



. 



10* 













[153.] 7. Tringa minuta. (Leisler.) Pigmy Sandpiper. 



Genus, Tringa, Briss. 



'• Tringa minuta. Leisler, Nachtr. Zu. Bechst. Naturg. Deut. Heft., i., p. 74." 



Beccasseau e'chasses {Tringa minuta). Tejim., ii., p. G24. 



Tringa minuta. Sab. Frankl. Journ., p. 68C. Bonap. Syn., No. 254. 



This species was seen abundantly in the autumn, feeding-, during the recess 

 of the tide, on the extensive flats at the mouth of Nelson's and Hayes rivers. 



DESCRIPTION 



Of a specimen from Hudson's Bay, in the British Museum. 



Colour. — Upper plumage dull hair-brown, blackish on the shafts. Quills of the wings, 

 rump, tail coverts, and middle pair of tail feathers, blackish-brown ; lateral tail feathers 

 broccoli-brown, their shafts, those of the greater quills, the tip edgings of the lesser quills, 

 the two lateral tail coverts, and the under plumage, white. Superciliary stripe, front of the 

 neck and breast, greyish-white ; the cheeks and sides of the breast striped on the shafts with 

 brown. Bill and legs brownish-black. 



Form. — Bill straight, shorter than the head. Wings equal to the tail, which is very 

 slightly doubly-forked. Outer and middle toes connected by a very short web. 



A specimen, killed, on the 2lst of July, at the mouth of Hayes River, had the upper 

 plumage in general brownish-black, narrowly bordered with reddish-brown, in some places 

 almost -white. The secondaries and their coverts slightly tipped with white ; the lateral tail 

 feathers edged with the same ; and the fore part of the neck striped on the shafts with dark 

 brown. Legs wax-yellow . 



Dimensions 

 Of a specimen in the British .Museum. 









Inch. 



Lin. 









Inch. 



Lin. 









Inch. 



Lin 



Lei 



njjth 



i total 



. 6 







Lengt 



h of bill . 





. 



8* 



Length 



of middle toe . 









7 





,, 



of tail 



1 



11 



n 



of tarsus 









10 



u 



of its nail . 



. 







H 





11 



of wing 



. 4 







a 



of naked th 



igh 



. 



4* 



n 



of hind toe and 



nail 







H 



3 D 



