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of a brown-ash, edged with bright ash ; the shafts 
dusky : the two middle tail-feathers dusky-brown. 
The young have the feathers on the top of the head 
dusky, edged with deep red : the forehead, eyebrows, 
throat, fore part of the neck, the middle of the breast, 
and the rest of the under parts pure white : a brown 
stripe between the eye and the beak : the sides of the 
breast reddish with brown dashes: the feathers of the 
back, the scapulars and wing-coverts deep black ; 
those of the top of the back edged with a broad red 
border, and of the scapulars with a broad yellowish- 
white border, and those of the wing-coverts with a 
narrow band of reddish-yellow : the two middle tail- 
feathers dusky, edged with red. 
Inhabits the northern regions, where it most pro- 
bably breeds ; frequenting the borders of rivers in 
Germany, &c. during its migration : its food consists 
of small worms and aquatic insects. 
ST. DOMINGO DUNLIN. 
(Pelidna Domiuicensis.) 
Pe. rostro jjedibiisqiie Jiiscis, corpore subtus rnjescente, reclricibiis 
extimis scapo albo, iiropygio variegato. 
Dunlin with the beak and legs brown, the body beneath reddish, 
the outer tail-feathers with a white shaft, the rump variegated. 
Triuga pusilla. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 252. Gvie/. Sj/st. Nat. I. 
681. 
La petite Aloucttc de mer. Briss. Om. 5. 222. 
Little Saudpiper, var. Lafb. Gen. Syn. 5. 18-1. 
