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with a lanceolate dusky spot; middle feathers of the tail 
black, edged with red, the rest margined with pale grey. 
Male, 7, 14, 4, 1-J, 1, y 8 ^, y^r. 
Extensively distributed on the continent, and extending to 
India. This species, little understood, is liable to be con- 
founded with individuals of Tringa Cinclus, and, in descrip- 
tion, with Tringa subarquata, from which latter especially it 
is widely different. It bears more resemblance to a Snipe 
than any of the other species, and might, with some propriety, 
constitute a genus by itself, as indeed it has been made to 
do by many authors. 
Tringa platyrhincha, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. ii. 616. Tringa 
platyrhincha, Elat-billed Sandpiper, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, 
vol. iv. 
185. Tringa minuta. Little Sandpiper. 
Bill about the length of the head, straight, slender, scarce- 
ly enlarged at the end ; tail doubly emarginate ; tarsus ten- 
twelfths long ; bill and feet dusky. Plumage in winter 
brownish-grey above, each feather with a dusky streak ; the 
sides of the neck paler, of its lower part tinged with brown ; 
the throat, fore-neck, breast, and abdomen white ; the middle 
tail-coverts dusky, the lateral white ; the tail-feathers ash- 
grey edged with white, the two middle greyish-brown. In 
summer the upper parts yellowish-red, spotted with brown- 
ish-black ; the throat, breast, and other lower parts white ; 
the lower anterior and lateral parts of the neck reddish-grey, 
streaked with brown; a dusky loral band, and a whitish 
streak over the eye. Young with the upper parts variegated 
with brownish-black and yellowish-red; the forehead and 
cheeks brownish-white ; the loral space brown ; the lower 
part of the sides of the neck brownish-grey ; the throat, fore- 
neck, and other lower parts white. 
Male, 6, 12, 4 T V, if, if, >T V and J, Female, 6 T 2 ? . 
A few individuals of this species have been obtained at 
various times, generally in autumn, on the southern shores of 
England. It occurs abundantly in autumn and winter in 
Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and Dalmatia. 
Tringa minuta, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. ii. 625. — Tringa 
minuta, Selby. Illustr. ii. 147. — Tringa minuta, Little Sand- 
piper, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, iv. 
186. Tringa Temminckii. TemminciPs Sandpiper. 
Bill a little shorter than the head, slender, scarcely en- 
