112 Mr. Yarrell's Description of a Species ofTringa^ 



hanced by the twofold circumstance, of its extreme rarity, as 

 well as being in a different state of plumage from the only other 

 specimen known. 



The plumage and the state of ossification of the tarsi prove 

 this specimen to be a young bird of the year ; but whether bred 

 in the marshes of the county in which it was killed, or, having 

 wandered from America to the northern part of our island, had 

 accompanied the Dotterell in their southern autumnal visit to 

 the chalk district of Cambridgeshire, can only be conjectured. 



The extensive range of hills around Melbourne are frequented 

 by Dotterell in considerable numbers for a short period during 

 every spring and autumn, in their way to and from their breed- 

 ing-ground ; and the only locality from which I could ever 

 obtain their eggs was the Grampian Hills. 



But three of the many additions to British ornithology that 

 have lately occurred having been recorded in the Transactions 

 of the Linnean Society, I take the opportunity this communica- 

 tion affords me, of adding a list of thirteen others, with a refe- 

 rence to the authorities from whom the first notices of these 

 addenda have emanated. The names of the three above men- 

 tioned are also included to complete the list. 



Loxia pytiopsittacus. Parrot Crossbill. See Selby's Illustrations 



of British Ornithology, p. 254i. 

 Plectrophanes Lapponica. Lark-spurred Bunting. Linn. Trans. 



vol. XV. part 1. p. 156. 

 Emberiza hortulana. Ortolan Bunting. Zool. Journ. vol. iii. 



p. 498. 

 Anthus Richardi. Richard's Lark. Zool. Journ. vol. i. p. 280 



^411. 

 Sylvia Suecica. Blue-breasted Warbler. Synopsis of the Contents 



of the Newcastle Museum, by G.T. Fox, Esq., F. L.S. p. 298. 



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