CURLEW SANDPIPER. Soul 
“several of these birds have been killed at Yarmouth in 
the autumn. One of them which was shot at that place 
in the month of August, had a red breast, and was in 
plumage similar to the one in a summer dress preserved 
in the British Museum.* We have met with this 
species on Pewit Island. It is more solitary than the 
dunlin, not more than a pair being seen together; and 
is a stupid bird, suffering a boat to approach close to it. 
The legs of this bird, when fresh killed, are of a pale 
green, but when dried they appear black.” As with most 
of our rare waders, more specimens have been procured 
on Breydon than on any other part of the coast, and 
the late Mr. J. D. Hoy has recorded in the ‘‘ Magazine 
of Natural History” (new series, vol. 1., p. 117), the 
occurrence of several specimens in summer plumage, 
near Yarmouth, in May, 1836. At Blakeney Mr. 
Dowell describes them as “not very rare, occurring 
for the most part singly amongst flocks of dunlins, 
and are easily distinguishable by their gait and longer 
bill and conspicuous white tail coverts.” Hxamples 
in the rich red plumage of the breeding season are occa- 
sionally met with, either late in spring or on their return 
from their breeding grounds at the close of the summer. 
Mr. Gurney possesses a fine specimen in this plumage, 
killed on Breydon; and Yarrell, who was well acquainted 
with our Norfolk coast, says, “I have obtained this bird 
in June, in the height of its summer plumage, from 
Norfolk, and have seen the young from the same locality 
early in July.” There is, of course, no reason to 
suppose that this species has ever remained to breed in 
this county, and the young birds above referred to must, 
* A Norfolk specimen in winter plumage, presented by the 
Rey. W. Whitear, is preserved amongst the British birds in the 
British Museum, together with a Yarmouth specimen in summer 
dress presented by Mr. C. Hubbard. 
