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temminck’s sandpiper. 
specimens before us, from Southern Africa, show an 
intermediate state, the plumage above being hair- 
brown, darker along the shafts of the feathers, and 
mixed with dark feathers cut into with reddish- 
orange ; the long tertials are deep purplish-brown, 
broadly edged with reddish-orange ; the pectoral 
band is indicated by hair-brown, mingled with 
reddish-orange. The entire length of the Minute 
Sandpiper, is from five and a-half to six inches; 
the length of the tarsus given by Mr. Yarrell, is ten 
lines and a-half; by Mr. Selby as seven-eighths, 
which agrees nearly with an African specimen. 
This bird has occurred in various parts of the 
English coasts, chiefly to the south and east side of 
the island, and Mr. Yarrell states, on the authority 
of Mr. Heysham, that they have been several times 
taken on the shores of the Solway. We have never 
been so fortunate as to meet with them there, nor 
do we hear of any instances of their capture in 
Scotland being recorded. Mr. Thompson has found 
them on the Irish coasts. On the European con- 
tinent it does not appear to be of very frequent 
occurrence ; and out of Europe, as already stated, 
we find it in Southern Africa ; and various autho- 
rities consider Indian specimens identical.* In 
Mr. Jerdan's catalogue, however, it is introduced 
with a ? t 
The second species we mentioned, — T emminCK’s 
Sandpiper, Tringa temminckii, Leislar Tem- 
* Franklin, Temminck, Selby, 
f Madras Journal, July, 1840. p. 209. 
