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One, near Belfast, April 1836 ; in Belfast Museum : Yarrell, 



op. cit. 

 A pair, Hayle, Cornwall, Oct. 13, 1846 : Rodd, ZooL, 1846, 



p. 1554. In the collection of Mr. Rodd. 

 One, Scilly, Oct. 1854 : Rodd, Zool, 1854, p. 4512. 

 One, Kingsbury Reservoir, Middlesex, 1856 : Harting, 



" Birds of Middlesex," p. 273. In the collection of Mr. 



H. E. Dresser. 

 One near Bexhill, Sussex, Oct. 8, 1857 : Kent, ZooL, 1859, 



p. 6537. In the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney. 

 Two, Scilly, Oct. 1870 : Rodd, ZooL, 1870, pp. 2384, 



2409. " Birds of Cornwall," p. 106. 

 Four, Instow, North Devon, Nov. 1870 : C. Smith, ZooL, 



1870, p. 2409 ; Mathew, ZooL, 1871, p. 2441. In the 



collections of the late Mr. Cecil Smith and Rev. M. A. 



Mathew. 

 One Eastbourne, Sussex, Nov. 12, 1870 : Bates, ZooL, 1871, 



p. 2442. In the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney. 



Ohs. This bird is the Tringa honapartii of 

 Schlegel, and the Schinz's Sandpiper of Eyton, 

 Yarrell, and other English naturalists. Tringa 

 schinzii of Bonaparte, " Amer. Orn.," iv. p. 69, pi. 

 24 (1832), but not of Brehm, " Beitriige," iii. p. 355 

 (1822), and Naumann, " Naturg. Vog. Deutschl.," vii. 

 p. 453, pi. 187 (1834), whose Tringa schinzii is only 

 a small variety of Tringa alpina. 



BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. Tringa bairdi (Coues). Length, 

 6-5 in. ; bill, 1*9 in. ; wing, 47 in. ; tarsus, 0"8 in. 



Hab. North and South America. 



One, Rye Harbour, Sussex, Oct. 11, 1900: Fallon, Field, 

 Nov. 24, 1900; Ibis, 1901, p. 158. Exhibited at a 

 meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club; "Bull. 

 Brit. Orn. Club," xL p. 27. 



