17(3 A HAND-LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



England. — Xorthiimberland (one), Durham (two), Yorks. (five), 

 Norfolk (nine), Suffolk (five or six), Kent (two), Sussex (five), 

 Devon (two), Cornwall (three), Scilly Isles (ten), Cumberland (one). 

 Scotland. — Aberdeen, Argyll and Orknej^s, one each. Ireland. — 

 Portumna (Galway) (one), Belmullet (^layo) (two). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Breeds on arctic shores of North America, 

 winters in South America, from Peru and Bolivia to Chile, 

 Argentina and Patagonia ; casual in north-east Siberia, Unalaska, 

 Greenland and Hawaii. Replaced by E. maculata acuminata in east 

 Siberia. 



T'RoLiA AcU/vviNATA ^ 



379. Erolia -ma€«lata acuminata (Horsf.)^— THE SIBERIAN 



PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 



ToTAXUS ACUMiNATUS Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, xiii, p. 192 



(1821 — Java, winter- visit or). 



Tringa acuminata (Horsfield), Saimders, pp. 579 and 580. 



Distribution. — England. — One or two. Brej^don (Norfolk) Aug. 29, 

 1892 (Seebohm, Ibis, 1893, p. 181). [One said taken near Yar- 

 mouth, Sept., 1848 (I.e. ; cf. Gurney, Zool, 1849, pp. 2392 and 2568).] 



DiSTRiBUTiox. — Abroad. — ^North-east Siberia, Kamtschatka, Com- 

 mander Islands. Winters in Japan and south to New Guinea, 

 Australia, and New Zealand. Replaced in North America by E. 

 maculata maculata. 



EROLIA BAIRDII 



380. Erolia bairdii (Coues)— BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. 



AcTODROMAS BAIRDII Coues, Proc. Acad. Sci. Philad., 1861, p. 194 (Great 

 Slave Lake, Canada). 



Tringa bairdi (Coues), E. Hartert, Bull. B.O.C., xi, p. 27 ; Saimders, 

 Brit. B., I, p. 15. 



Distribution. — Great Britain. — Three. Young female Rye Harbour 

 (Sussex) Oct. 11, 1900 {ut supra). One Hunstanton (Norfolk) Sept. 

 16, 1903 (J. H. Gurney, Zool, 1909, p. 124). Adult female St. Kilda 

 (O. Hebrides) Sept. 28, 1911 (W. E. Clarke, Scot. Xat., 1912, p. 9 ; 

 cf. Brit. B., V, p. 255). 



DiSTRiBUTiox. — Abroad. — Breeds along arctic coast of North 

 America and migrates south to Chile, Argentina, and Patagonia, 

 casual in south-west Africa. 



* American authors {A.O.U. Checklist, 3rd ed, 1910, p. 113) have adopted 

 Latham's name Tringa aurita (Latham, Ind. Orn. SiippL, p. lxvi, ex Gen. 

 Syn. SuppL, p. 314) but without reason, as the description disagrees almost 

 entirely with that of the present species. — E.H. 



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