LITTLE SANDPIPER. 
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This variety of the Ringed Plover is seven inches long, 
and fourteen in extent ; the bill is reddish yellow for half its 
length, and black at the extremity ; the front and whole lower 
parts, pure white, except the side of the breast, which is 
marked with a curving streak of black, another spot of black 
bounding the front above ; back and upper parts, very pale 
brown, inclining to ashy white, and intermixed with white ; 
wings, pale brown ; greater coverts, broadly tipt with white ; 
interior edges of the secondaries, and outer edges of the 
primaries, white, and tipt with brown ; tail, nearly even, the 
lower half white, brown towards the extremity, the outer 
feather pure white, the next white, with a single spot of 
black ; eye, black and full, surrounded by a narrow ring of 
yellow ; legs, reddish yellow ; claws, black ; lower side of the 
wings, pure white. 
LITTLE SANDPIPER — TRINGA PUSILLA. 
Plate XXXVII. Fig. 4. 
Lath. Syn. v. p. 184. 32 Arct. Zool. ii. No. 397 Cinclus dominicensis minor, 
Briss. v. p. 222. 13. t. 25. f. 2. — Turt. Syst. p. 410. — Peale's Museum , No. 4138. 
TRINGA MINUTILLA?— Vieillot.* 
Tringa pusilla, Bonap. Synop. p. 319. 
This is the least of its tribe in this part of the world, and 
in its mode of flight has much more resemblance to the Snipe 
than to the Sandpiper. It is migratory, departing early in 
October for the south. It resides chiefly among the sea 
marshes, and feeds among the mud at low water ; springs with 
a zigzag irregular flight, and a feeble twit. It is not altogether 
confined to the neighbourhood of the sea, for I have found 
several of them on the shores of the Schuylkill, in the month 
of August. In October, immediately before they go away, 
* The Prince of Musignano considers this species peculiar to America ; 
that it is different from the T. minuta and Temminckii of Europe, and that it 
is not the Linnsean T. pusilla. If the latter opinion be correct, pusilla can riot 
be retained, and I have added with a query the name given to it by Vieillot. — Ed„ 
