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piper of the supplement, which is the Tringa Pusilla, or Little 
Stint, of “ Bewick’s Birds,”) and the Pelidna Pusilla and 
Temminckii, of “ Shaw’s Zoology,” are also the same, viz. 
the Tringa Temminckii,* of Leisler. 
We are indebted to Mr. Yarrell for the loan of the specimen 
from which the above cut was taken. It was a young bird, 
undergoing the change of plumage, from that of summer to 
that of winter, in the autumn, or perhaps a little later in the 
year. The specimen described by Montagu, in the appendix 
to his “ Ornithological Dictionary,” was obtained in Devonshire; 
and others have been captured in Norfolk, and elsewhere. 
Temminck’s Tringa, in the summer plumage, has the feathers 
of the upper parts, black, edged with ferruginous ; vent, belly, 
under tail coverts, and throat, white ; forehead, foreneck, and 
breast, light ferruginous, dotted with black or dark brown ; 
two middle tail feathers, dark brown, edged with lighter ; two 
outer tail feathers, white. In the winter plumage, it has the 
belly, vent, under tail coverts, chin, throat, and forehead, white, 
the latter slightly blotched with brown ; upper parts, brown, 
with the centre of the feathers darker ; two centre feathers of 
the tail, longest, four centre ones, brown, lateral ones as in 
the summer plumage. 
The following is a description of the bird lent to us by 
Mr. Yarrell, from which our cut is taken : — Belly, vent, throat, 
under tail coverts, tips of tertials, and forehead, white, on 
the latter intermixed with dark cinereous brown ; breast, cine- 
reous ; crown, occiput, and wing coverts, cinereous brown, with 
the edges of the feathers ferruginous ; back, dark cinereous 
brown, each feather margined with ferruginous, within which 
* Mr. Rennie, in his edition of Montagu, unites the two species again. 
