350 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 



which he did not shoot at as it was raining hard at the 

 time, and from a hurried glance at the one he had 

 killed, he took it for nothing more than a young 

 redshank. 



This species is abundant in the United States of 

 America, where it frequents the sea shore more than 

 marshy ground, and is rarely seen inland. According 

 to Yarrell, owing to the bill being "intermediate in 

 its length between that of the true snipe's and sand- 

 piper's, and some other peculiarities in which it also 

 differs from both," it was placed in a separate genus by 

 Dr. Leach under the term Macrorhamphus, which has 

 been generally adopted. It is the red-breasted snipe 

 of Wilson, and according to Audubon it is termed 

 Becassine de mer by the Creoles of Louisiana. Mr. 

 Osbert Salvin, who found it a very common wader on 

 the sand-banks of the Pacific coast of Guatemala,"^ 

 remarks — " I used always to see it feeding in the open 

 where there was no cover whatever, its habits strongly 

 contrasting in this respect with the common snipe to 

 which it is closely allied." 



TRINGA SUBARQUATA, Temminck. 



CUELEW SANDPIPER. 



This species, known also as the Pigmy Curlew, is not 

 unfrequently met with on our coast, both in spring and 

 autumn, and more particularly in the latter season. 

 From my own observations, more specimens seem to be 

 obtained in September and October than at any other 

 time. Messrs. Sheppard and Whitear, in their " Cata- 

 logue of Norfolk and Suffolk Birds," remark (1825) 



* See " Ibis" for 1865, second series, p. 191. 



