Tringa. birds. PRESSIROSTRES. 109 
Linn. Syst. i. 252 — Little Sandpiper, Mont. Orn. Diet. App. — T. Tem- 
minckii, Tern. Orn. ii. 622 — A rare winter visitant. 
Length 6 inches ; weight 6 drams. Bill Jths of an inch long, slender, 
slightly deflected towards Ihe extremity, and, with the feet, brown. Irides 
dusky. Plumage, above, black with red margins ; below, cinereous red with 
black streaks, the throat, belly, and under tail- covers, white. Quills dusky, 
margined with white. Tail of twelve feathers, the two middle dusky, the 
next on each side cinereous, with reddish margins ; the two or three exterior 
feathers pure white. In winter the plumage above is brownish, with darker 
streaks. The young are more inclined to cinereous above — This species, 
which is well described by Montagu, from a specimen shot in November on a 
salt-marsh, near the sea in Devonshire, has probably been confounded with 
the preceding. The character of the tail identifies it with the Linnean spe-^ 
cies, and renders unnecessary the new trivial name which Leister proposed, 
and which Temminck has too hastily adopted. 
155. T. minuta. — Tail doubly forked, the lateral feathers 
greyish brown, with white margins. 
Idttle Sandpiper, Penn. Brit. Zool. ii. 473 — Little Stint, Bewick's Brit. 
Birds, ii. 122 — Little Sandpiper, Mont. Orn. Diet. Supp. Temm. Orn. 
ii. 624 — A rare winter visitant. 
Size the same as the preceding, with this difference, that M. Temminck as- 
signs 8 lines as the length of the tarsus of the pusilla., and 10 to the minuta. Bill 
and legs black. The crown black, with red spots. Plumage, above, black with 
red margins ; below, the sides of the neck and breast are red, with angular 
brown spots ; the middle of the breast, throat, belly and lateral upper tail- 
covers white. The rump and two middle tail-feathers black, the lateral ones 
greyish-brown with white margins. In winter the plumage above is cine- 
reous, with brownish-black streaks at the shafts ; the two middle tail-feathers 
brown. The young nearly resemble the winter garb of the old birds. The 
margins of the scapulars and wing-covers incline more to white. An exami- 
nation of the descriptions of the British writers, quoted above, seems to 
point out, very obviously, their connection with this species of Temminck, to 
which they are here referred. They all agree nearly in size, and in the co- 
lour of the rump and tail ; characters which mark the distinction between this 
species and the pusilla. In all, however, the form of the tail is not mentioned, 
which is said to be doubly forked, or to have the middle and external feathers 
of the same length, the intermediate ones on each side shorter. 
156. T. Canutus. Knot. — Bill straight, much enlarged at 
the end; the tail-feathers of equal length, cinereous with a 
white margin. 
Knot, Will. Om. 224.— T. Can. (Calidris and Islandica), Linn. Syst. ii. 
251-2. and App — lied Sandpiper (T. Islandica), Ash-coloured Sand- 
piper (T. cinerea), Aberdeen Sandpiper, and Knot, Penn. Brit. Zool. 
ii. 469, 462, and 461. — T. cinerea, Temm. Orn. ii. 627 — A winter visi- 
tant. 
Length 1 0 , breadth 19 inches ; weight 5 oz. Bill I 5 inches in length, green- 
ish black ; the feet of the same colour. The hind toe, according to Captain 
Sabine (App. Parry’s 1st Voy. ccL) turns inwards, as in that of the turnstone. 
Irides brown. Plumage, above, black, bordered with red, with oval spots of the 
same colour on the scapulars ; below brownish red, the belly white, with red 
and black spots. Quills dusky, edged with white. Tail-feathers dusky ash, 
edged with white ; the upper covers white, with black bars and red spots. 
Willoughby states, that the outer tail-feathers are white. In winter the 
plumage above is cinereous, with brown streaks, and below white, with dusky 
streaks on the breasts and sides. In the young there is more cinereous above 
