358 BIKDS OF NORFOLK. 



Book" — "Itm knottes for my Lorde at Principall 

 Teestes and no other tyme, and at a ]^- a pece, except 

 my Lordes commandment be otherwise." 



The stomach of a specimen killed by Mr. Dowell, 

 at Blakeney, in the month of December, contained 

 from one hundred to one hundred and fifty small shells, 

 and in two examples killed in May, and examined by 

 Mr. Harting, were found, in one, three shells of the 

 common periwinkle ; and in the other one hundred and 

 fifty small bivalve shells belonging to the genera Bissoa 

 and Turbo. 



TRINGA RUFESCENS, VieHlot. 



BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 



This rare straggler from the American continent 

 was first included in the list of British birds by the 

 late Mr. Yarrell, who, in the sixteenth volume of the 

 the " Linnean Transactions," described " a species of 

 Tringa, killed in Cambridgeshire, new to England and 

 Europe."* The same author also, in some fiu-ther 

 remarks on this specimen, in his history of "British 

 Birds," says — " This bird was shot early in the month 

 of September, 1826, in the parish of Melbourne, in 

 Cambridgeshire, in company with some dotterel (Gha- 

 radrius morinellus), and passed immediately afterwards 

 into the possession of Mr. Baker, of Melbourne, by 

 whom the skin was preserved, and of whom it was 

 purchased by John Sims for me. A few years after- 

 wards Mr. John Sims, who had then removed to 

 Norwich, obtained a second example of this species, 



* See also Eyton's " History of the rarer British Bii'ds " (p. 39), 

 with a figure of this bird. 



