PEEP.
LITTLE PEEP.
Tringa pim'Ua, LINNAEUS.
" minutiUa, VlELLOT.
Tringa— ? Pusilla—Small, diminutive.
T H I S is another N o r t h American species, occurring from Labrador
to New York and the States generally; and so on to Carolina and
Florida.
A specimen was shot in this country at the end of May, 1856,
near Penzance, in Cornwall, by Mr. W. S. Vingoe, of that place, so
that in future it may be enquired for as well in the ' H o m e ' as in
the ' F o r e i g n ' department, and indeed may very likely have been
overlooked in previous instances.
I t frequents the sea-shore, the surge washing up the worms, small
insects, and other things which suffice it for food.
The note resembles the name of the bird, thence given to it.
Male; length, seven inches and a half; hill, blackish, the tip depressed:
over the eye is a white streak. Head on the crown, neck on
the hack, and nape, dark reddish brown, the feathers bordered with
chesnut and pale yellowish brown; chin, white; throat, dull brown, with
central dark spots; breast, white, clouded with dark brown; back,
blackish brown; on the lower part the sides have the feathers tipped
with white. The wings reach to the end of the tail; greater wing
coverts, tipped and edged with wdiite; lesser wing coverts, dark reddish
brown, bordered with chesnut and pale yellowish brown; of the
primaries some are tipped and edged with white, the shafts of the
second and third quills pale brown, of the others brownish white;
secondaries, tipped and edged with white more extensively; tertiaries,