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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 rtifescens. 



Supra' fuscescente-rufescens, nigro maculata ; alls caud^que 

 versus apicem nigris al bisque ; tectricibus alarum inferio- 

 ribus versus apicem albis, nigro variis ; remigibus subtils 

 albis nigro guttatis punctatisque ; gul4 juguloque rufescen- 

 tibus ; abdomine rufescente-albo. Vieill. Gal. Ois. p. 105. 

 pi. 238. 



Le Tringa rouss^tre. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 2de edit, 

 torn, xxxiv. p. 470. 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 



