CURLEW SANDPIPER 408 



" Only one instance occurs of this rare bird having been 

 observed in England, which was shot near Sandwich ; 

 and we are informed by Dr. Latham' that it differed 

 from the preceding bird from Holland, in the edges of 

 all the feathers being of a pale ochreous colour instead 

 of white. It weighed almost '2 ounces, its length was 

 8^ inches, its extent 15i inches, its bill 1^ inches long." 

 In a footnote it is stated that " another has since been 

 met with at Greenwich in August." 



Morris states that " another near Sandwich, May, 1833, 

 was shot by Mr. J. Gould." 



Writing from Deal in September, 1850, Mr. J. W. 

 Hulke says : " On August 16 I had the good fortune to 

 shoot the Curlev/ Sandpiper in its summer plumage ; it 

 w^as associated with a large flock of Dunlins." There 

 is a specimen in the Canterbury Museum which was 

 obtained at Sandwich in 1850. 



Mr. H. L. Saxby, writing September 24, 1862, from 

 Sheerness, states : " About a week ago I saw a fine 

 •example of this species in the possession of a boy who 

 had just before killed it with a stick, a little above 

 Rochester Bridge. It was extremely fat, and the 

 stomach was full of sand and small worms. I after- 

 wards observed eight more upon some marshy ground 

 near the same spot." 



There is a male and female, obtained in Romney 

 Marsh in September, by Dr. E. B. Sharpe, in the British 

 Museum. 



In 1871 Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., writes: "on Sep- 

 tember 8, at Romney Bay, near Lydd, I killed three 

 Pigmy Curlews." 



• Gen. Sijn., Suppl., iv., p. 291, 1787. 



