358 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
Book”—“Itm knottes for my Lorde at Principall 
Feestes and no other tyme, and at aj4.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 Rissoa 
and Turbo. 
TRINGA RUFESCENS, Vieillot. 
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 further 
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 (Cha- 
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 Birds” (p. 39), 
with a figure of this bird. 
