110 Mr. Yarrell's Description of a Species ofTringa. 



tional interest attaches to this specimen, since knowing it to be 

 new to this country ; I am besides authorised to add the testi- 

 mony of Mons. Temminck, — to whom, during his recent visit to 

 London, I exhibited the example now figured, — that this bird 

 is also entirely new to Europe. I have therefore ventured to 

 place a notice of it before the Linnean Society, and add the 

 following description. 



Ordo. Grallatores Vigors. 



Fam. ScoLOPACiDiB. Ejusd. 



Tringa rupescens. Vieill. 



Buff-breasted Sandpiper. 



Tab. XI. 



The beak is slender and very slightly curved, three-fourths of 

 an inch in length, and black ; from the point to the gape it 

 measures one inch, and from the gape to the occiput is also 

 one inch : the feathers on the top of the head are dark 

 brown, approaching to black, each feather edged with very 

 light brown, giving a mottled appearance ; the back of the 

 neck light brown, the dark spots formed by the centre of 

 each feather minute ; the back very dark brown, the ex- 

 treme edges only of the feathers light brown : the wing- 

 coverts brown, and intermediate in appearance between 

 the light brown feathers of the neck and those of the back ; 

 the primaries nearly black, tipped with white ; the shafts 

 white ; the tertials brown, edged with light brovvn ; tail- 

 coverts brown, with lighter-coloured borders : the tail cu- 

 neiform, the centre feathers black, the shafts and edges 

 lighter ; the feathers on each side light brown, inclosed by 

 a zone of black, and edged with white. 



The chin, sides of the neck, throat and breast, light brown tinged 



with 



