LITTLE DUNLIN. 
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North America : in the United States it is extremely 
common. Wilson observes that this species, in con- 
junction with several others, sometimes collect to- 
gether in such flocks as to seem, at a distance, a 
large cloud of thick smoke, varying in form and 
appearance every instant, while it performs its evolu- 
tions in the air. At such times the sportsmen make 
prodigious slaughter among them ; while, as the 
showers of their companions fall, the whole body 
often alight or descend to the surface with them, 
till the gunner is completely satiated with destruc- 
tion. 
LITTLE DUNLIN. 
(Pelidna pusilla.) 
Pe. caudd cuneiforma, corpore fusco-cinereo subtus albo, rectri- 
cibus tribus exterioribus utrinque albis. 
Dunlin with a wedge-shaped tail, the body ashy-brown, beneath 
white, the three outer tail-feathers on each side white. 
Tringa pusilla. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 7^7- ? 
Tringa niinuta. Sabine, Frank. Journ. App. 686. 
Little Sandpiper, Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 207- Penn. Arct. Zool. 
2. 207. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 184. Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. and 
Sup. with Jig. Wils. Amer. Orn. v. 5. p. 32. 
Little Stint or Least Snipe. Beiv. Brit. Birds, 2. 122. 
Tringa fusca. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 733. 
Brown Sandpiper. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 195. Lath. Gen. Syn. 
Sup. 250- 
MoNTAGU thus describes the female of this bird : 
*' Length six inches : beak dusky, three quarters of 
