LIMICOL^. 



BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 435 



SCOLOPACID.^. 



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Tryngites rufescens (Vieillot*). 

 THE BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 



TruKja rufescens. 



Tryngites, Cabanisf. — Bill about as long as the bead, slender, straight, de- 

 ceived and obtuse at the tip ; nasal groove long ; nostrils basal, linear, rather 

 large. Wings pointed, the first quill-feather the longest. Tail ruoderate, doubly 

 cmarginate. Legs moderate, slender, the tibia bare for a considerable distance ; 

 tarsus compressed, slender, scutellate, anterior toes scutellate, mirginatc ; hind 

 toe small, elevated ; claws small, arcbed, slender, slightly acute. 



The Author had the gratification of ol)taining the speci- 

 men of the interesting and prettily-marked Sandpiper, from 

 which the figure above was taken, in the autumn of 182(5, 

 when at Royston ; and soon afterwards made it known as a 

 new visitor to England and Europe in the Transactions of 

 the Linnean Society, xvi. y>. 109, pi. 11. This hird was 

 shot early in the month of September, 18*26, in the parish 

 of Melbourne, in Cambridgeshire, in company with some 



* TriiKja rufesans, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, xxxiv. p. 470 (1819). 

 t Journal fiir Ornithologie, 1856, p. 418 



