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PECTORAL SANDPIPER. Tringa maeulata, Vieillot.i 

 Length from tip of bill, 9 in. ; bill, 1 in. ; wing, 5*25 

 in.; tarsus, 1 in. 



liah. North and South America. 



One, Breydon Harbour, Yarmouth, Oct. 17, 1830: Hoy, 



Mag. Nat. Hist, 1837, p. 116; Yarrell, "Hist. Brit. 



Birds," Srded., vol. iii. p. 82. Examined by Audubon, 



and preserved in the Hoy collection at Boyle's Court, 



Essex (J. F. Lescher), figured in Babington's " Birds of 



Suffolk," pi. 4. 

 One, Annet I., Scilly, May 27, 1840 : Rodd, Zool, 1843, 



p. 141 ; " Birds of Cornwall," p. 104. 

 One, Hartlepool, Oct. 1841 : Yarrell, op. eit.; Hogg, "Cat. 



Birds Durham," p. 28. 

 One, Gyllyngvase, near Falmouth : Cocks, Contrib, Faun. 



Falmouth, Nat, 1851, p. 137; Rodd, p. 104. 

 One, Coatham, near Redcar, Yorkshire, June 17, 1853: 



Rudd, iVrt/., 1858, p. 275. 

 One, Teesmouth, August 1853 : Rudd, Nat, 1853, p. 275. 

 One near Yarmouth, Sept. 30, 1853 : Gurney, Zool., 1853, 



p. 4124; Stevenson, "Birds of Norfolk," vol. ii. p. 368. 



In the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney. 

 One near Whitley, Northumberland, Oct. 27, 1855 : Bold, 



Zool, 1855, p. 4808. 

 One, Northumberland coast. Shot by W. Proctor, of 



Durham. Recorded in 1st ed. of this " Handbook." 

 One, Caistor, near Yarmouth, Sept. 16, 1865 : Stevenson. 

 One, Don Mouth, Aberdeen, Oct. 2, 1867 : R. Gray, " Birds 



of West of Scotland," p. 321. 

 One, Terrington Marsh, near Lynn, Norfolk, Jan. 9, 1868 : 



Stevenson, o^^. cit 

 Three, Scilly, Sept. 1870: Rodd, ^ooL, 1870, p. 2346; and 



"Birds of Cornwall," p. 105. 



^ Tringa maeulata, Vieillot, " Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat.," xxxiv. p. 465 

 (1819). 7'ringa pedoralis, Say, " Long's Exped.," i. p. 171 (1823). 



