The example figured by Mr. Gould in his Birds of Europe,
was hilled in autumn, and has the margins of the feathers
on the upper surface of the body almost white. The
winter plumage of this species is, I believe, as yet unknown.
The figure below represents one of the eggs which' is
mottled with chocolate colour; upon the others the chocolate
colour was uniformly spread over the whole surface.
CRALLATORES, SCOLOPACIDÆ.
TH E L IT T L E ST IN T .
Tringà pusilla, Little Sandpiper, P enn. Brit. Zool. vol. it. p.,95.
,, *' M ont. Ornith. Diet.
,, Stint,.• B ewick, BritiiBirds;volv ii. p . l i f t .
^Sandpiper, F l em. Brit. An. p. 1P9.
Minute Tringa, . Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 147.
Little Stint, ■ ' J entos, Brit. Vert. p. 212.
- , , ? Sandpiper, Goued, Birds of Europe, pt. v.
Bécasseau ecfi.dsses, T e m m . Man. d’Ornith. vol. ii. p. 624.
T he Little Sandpiper, or Little Stint, as it is also
called, from its diminutive size, goes through seasonal changes
of hdlour in its plumage like those observed to take place in
the Curlew Sandpiper and the Knot, already described, but
is more common in autumn than at any other period of the
year. The species was first mentioned by Pennant as a
British Bird from a specimen killed in Cambridgeshire,'and
is most frequent on the southern and eastern shores of this
country. Indeed from the eastern localities that will be
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