374 SCOLOPACID.?^. 



An example in the Museum at Belfast, there is reason 

 to believe, was killed in Ireland. In October, 184G, two 

 adults, male and female, were procured in Hayle estuary, 

 about seven miles from Penzance, and were recorded by the 

 late E. H. E,odd, in whose collection they are preserved 

 (Zool. p. 155-4). In the second week of October, 1854, 

 the same naturalist chronicled (Zool. p. 4512) an example 

 obtained at Trescoe in the Scilly Islands ; and in the second 

 week of October, 1870, he obtained another shot in the same 

 locality. On the 29th of the same mouth Mr. Vingoe, of 

 Penzance, showed him another which had just been shot at 

 the Lizard ; and it would appear that a small flock must 

 have arrived on our shores about that time, for in the first 

 week of that same November four individuals, two of which 

 are now in the collection of Mr. Cecil Smith, and one in 

 that of the Rev. Murray A. Mathew, were shot at Instow, 

 North Devon ; another being obtained on the 12th of the 

 month at Eastbourne, Sussex (Zool. s.s. p. 2442). In the 

 latter county one had already been recorded (Zool. p. 6537), 

 shot near Bexhill, on 8th October, 1857, and is now in the 

 collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney. Mr. H. E. Dresser possesses 

 a mounted specimen, stated on the label at the back of its 

 case to have been shot at Kingsbury Pteservoir, Middlesex, 

 in 1856, by Mr. Goodair. There are probably some un- 

 recorded British-killed examples, and owing to the similarity 

 of this species in its winter-dress, to the Dunlin at the 

 same season, it has no doubt often escajied recognition. Its 

 occurrence on the Continent of Europe does not as yet 

 appear to have been authenticated, for, as already stated, the 

 T. scldnzi of Brehm and of other ornithologists is merely a 

 variety of the Dunlin. 



In Greenland, Bonaparte's Sandpiper was believed by 

 Holboll (according to Dr. Paulsen) to breed near Julians- 

 haab, where small flocks of both young and old birds have 

 been observed in August ; and a very young bird was ob- 

 tained at Nenortalik in 1835 ; one, changing to winter 

 plumage in 1810 ; and three in 1841.* There can be little 

 * Newton, Manual Arctic Exped. p. 103 (1875). 



