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mens in which the bill was of a dark flesh-grey, and 

 others in which it was deep greenish black. 



[Mr. J. E. Harting possesses a specimen of the Curlew Sand- 

 piper obtained by Mr. Andersson in Walwich Bay on April 15th, 

 and two others from the same locality^ obtained on October loth 

 and 2 1th.— En.] 



363. Tringa Bairdii (Cones). Baird's Sandpiper, 



Acfodromas Bairdii, Co\\e», in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliilad. 1801, 



p. 194. 

 Tringa limrdi, Harting, in Ibis, 1870, p. 151. 



[Mr. J. E. Harting possesses a male specimen of this American 

 Sandpiper, obtained by Mr. Andersson in Walwich Bay on 

 October 24th, 1863, being the only instance with which I am 

 acquainted of the occurrence of this species in tlie Old World. 

 Mr. Andersson probably did not particularly observe this spe- 

 cimen, as I do not find any reference to it in his notes. 

 Mr. Harting has favoured me with the following remarks on this 

 interesting species, which, by his kind permission, I here insert: — 



" I do not think that Tringa Bairdii has ever been figured. 



" This species is not recognized by Professor Baird in his 'Birds 

 of Nortli America,' although doubtless he has met with it since 

 tlie ])ublication of that work, unless we arc to suppose that he 

 lias included it under the name of Tringa Bonapartei, Sehlegel 

 (/. e. T. Schinzii, Bonap. nee Brehm). This can scarcely be the 

 case, since lie describes correctly the latter species as having the 

 upper tail-coverts white, which in T. Bairdii arc black or nearly 

 so, and gives other characters which are applicable to the former 

 but not to the latter bird. Prof. Sehlegel, strange to say, gives 

 T. Bairdii of Cones as a synonym of T. maculata, Vieillot [i. e. 

 T. ])ectoraIis, Say and Bonap.), of which species he considers it 

 a small variety (Mus. P.-B. Scolopaces, p. 39) *. Bonaparte, 



[* There is a remarkable similarity in tbe general appearance of T. Bairdii 

 and T. maculata ; but the fomier may be readily distinguished by its much 

 shorter toes. The middle toe, without the claw, measures 0'45 of an inch in 

 T. Bairdii, and 0-8r, in T. maculata.— Y.t>.] 



