CHARADRIID^. 



579 





AMERICAN PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 



Tringa maculata, Vieillot. 



SIBERIAN PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 



Tringa acuminata (Horsfield). 



The American Pectoral Sandpiper has been observed in the 

 British Islands with far more frequency than any other species of 

 wader from the New World. The first authenticated specimen was 

 shot in October 1830, at Breydon, Norfolk, in which county seven 

 more have since been obtained ; Suffolk can claim four ; Yorkshire 

 four or five (the last on September 28th 1897) ; Durham two ; and 

 Northumberland one, on June 27th 1853. There are also records 

 of one from Eastbourne in Sussex ; one from Kent on August 2nd 

 1898 ; two from North Devon ; one from Falmouth in Cornwall ; 

 and four from the Scilly Islands — among the last an example on 

 May 27th 1840. A young bird (one of three) was shot in Cumber- 

 land on October i8th 1888. In Scotland, an immature bird was 

 killed at Don-mouth, Aberdeenshire, on October 2nd 1867, and 

 another (identified by Mr. Harting) near Loch Lomond on 

 November 24th 1882, while a third was shot at Westray, Orkney, 

 by Mr. F. M. Ogilvie on August 26th 1889. In Ireland, Mr. 

 Williams of Dublin found in the market a remarkably fat male, sent 

 from Portumna, co. Galway, with Snipe, in October 1888. Except 

 where otherwise mentioned, all the above occurrences have taken 

 place in autumn or winter. 



This species has not yet been met with on the Continent of 



Y Y 2 



