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MINUTE DUNLIN. 
(Pelidna minuta.) 
Pe. Cauda cinered subcuneatd, tectricibus caudce inferioribiis rec- 
tricibus mediis equalibus, rostro recto capite breviore. 
Dunlin with a cinereous slightly-wedged tail, its under-coverts 
equal in length to the tail-feathers, the beak straight and 
shorter than the head. 
Tringa minuta. Leisler. Temm. man. d'Orn. 403. 
Becasseau echasses. Temm. man. d'Orn. 403. Id. 2 Edit. ii. 
624. 
This species is five inches and a half in length : it 
has the beak straight, and shorter than the head : all 
the upper parts of the body are ash-coloured, with a 
dusky-brown spot on their shafts: the sides of the 
breast are reddish-ash : there is a brown dash between 
the eye and the beak : the middle of the breast, the 
throat, eyebrows, fore part of the neck, and all the 
under parts and lateral under tail-coverts pure white : 
the tail-feathers bright ash, with the exception of the 
two middle ones, which are brown : the beak and 
legs black. Its summer plumage differs, having the 
top of the head black with rufous stripes : the sides 
of the neck and of the breast bright reddish, spread 
with small angulated brown spots : the eyebrows, 
throat, breast, and all the under parts pure white : 
the back and scapulars dusky, the feathers termi- 
nated with bright red, and bordered with large spots 
of the latter colour : the lateral feathers of the upper 
tail-coverts white with distinct spots : wing-coverts 
