KUFF 40;" 



Genus MACHETES, Cuvier. 

 EUFF. 



Machetes pugnax (Limic'eus). /S'.JV., i., p. 247 



Ruff and Reeve ; Greenwich Sandpiper. 



Under the name of Greenwich Sandpiper, Latham, in 

 his Gen. Syn., SuppL, i., p. t249 (1787), says: "The above 

 was shot at Greenwich, on August 5, 1785, by Dr. Leith, 

 who did me the favour to add it to my collection. I 

 esteem it a new species. He subsequently named it 

 Tringa gre)iovicensis." 



Boys, in his Birds of Sandicich, 1792, placed this 

 species under the name of " Greenwich Sandpiper." 

 Evidently these refer to the male bird in winter plumage. 



In 1844 the Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett states that 

 the Ruff was " common in Romney Marsh in spring and 

 autumn." 



In 1871 Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., says : " On Sep- 

 tember 8, at Romney Bay, near Lydd, I killed a young 

 Reeve. I also received one from Faversham, in Kent." 



In the Maidstone Museum there is an immature female, 

 obtained at Gillingham, August 2, 1894, by Mr. H. 

 Payne. 



The Ruff and Reeve have of late years become rare 

 birds in Kent. 



