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VIII. Description of a Species of Tringa, killed in Cambridge- 
shire, new to England and Europe. By William Yarrell, Esq., 
F.L.S. Communicated by the Zoological Club of the Linnean 
Society. 
Read June 17, 1828. 
TRINGA RUFESCENS. 
Supra’ fuscescente-rufescens, nigro maculata; alis caudáque 
versus apicem nigris albisque ; tectricibus alarum inferio- 
ribus versus apicem albis, nigro variis; remigibus subtüs 
albis nigro guttatis punctatisque ; gulà juguloque rufescen- - 
tibus; abdomine rufescente-albo. Vieill. Gal. Ois. p. 105. 
pl. 238. 
Le Tringa roussátre. Nouv. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. 2de edit. 
tom. xxxiv. p. 4/0. Encycl. Meth. p. 1090. , 
Such are the characters and references which M. Vieillot 
points out as distinguishing the bird he has chosen for his type 
of the genus Tringa, a species found in Louisiana, and a spe- 
cimen of which I have now the pleasure to record as a British 
bird. | : 
This interesting and prettily marked Tringa was shot early in 
the month of September 1826, in the parish of Melbourne in 
Cambridgeshire, in company with some Dotterell (Charadrius 
morinellus); and passed immediately afterwards into the pos- 
session of Mr. Baker of Melbourne, by whom the skin was | 
preserved, and of whom it was purchased for me. An addi- | 
tional 
