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obtained at Braunton Burrows, on the 12tli September, 1871 

 (Zool. s.s. pp. 2808, 2909). 



Passing eastward, Mr, Hartiug has recorded (Handbk. 

 Brit. B. p. 141) a Pectoral Sandpiper obtained at Eastbourne, 

 Septembe^r, 1870. At Aldeburgb, Sufiblk, one is stated by 

 Mr. Hele to have been killed on the 5th October, 1870 (Field, 

 15th Oct. 1870). In Yorkshire one is stated to have been 

 shot at Teesmouth in August, 1853, and another at Piedcar 

 on the 17th October of the same year (Naturalist, 1853, 

 p. 275) ; in Durham, according to Dr. Edward Clarke, one 

 was killed near Hartlepool in October, 1841 ; and Mr. John 

 Hancock has a specimen said to have been shot near Bishop 

 Auckland. In Northumberland, the only authenticated 

 example was obtained on Whitley sands on the 27tli June, 

 1853, by Mr. Robert Duncan (Zool. p. 4808), and is now 

 in possession of Mr. C. M. Adamson : it is in summer 

 plumage. 



In Scotland an immature bird was shot at Don-mouth, 

 Abei-deenshire, on the 2nd October, 1867, as recorded by Mr, 

 R. Gray (B. West Scot. p. 321). Lastly, one was shot by 

 Sir G. Leith Buchanan, Bart., near Loch Lomond, on the 

 24th November, 1882, during very boisterous weather ; and 

 the correctness of its identification has been confirmed by 

 Mr. Harting (Zool, 1883, p. 177), to whom the specimen was 

 very properly submitted. Some other examples on record 

 are either suspected of being, or are known to be, erroneously 

 identified ; and, in at least one instance, a foreign specimen 

 has been passed off as British-killed. 



On the Continent of Europe its occurrence has not j-et 

 been recorded, nor does it appear to have crossed from the 

 American side of Behring's Straits to Asia, although its Old 

 World representative, Tringa acuminata, does occasionally 

 visit Alaska. It is true that Gould quotes Swinhoe as stating 

 that the Pectoral Sandpiper was abundant in Northern China, 

 and also at Amoy, in August, but Swinhoe subsequently 

 stated (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 40;)) that his Chinese birds were 

 T. acuminata. In Greenland it is stated by Keinhardt (Ibis, 

 1861, p. 11) to have been met witli on three occasions. 



