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which was killed at Sherringham, on the coast of 
Norfolk, and which he preserved for the Norwich 
Museum.” Amongst the British birds in that institu- 
tion (No. 240) this local rarity, although in rather a 
dilapidated condition, is still preserved, and according 
to an entry in the donation book of that date, it was 
killed at Sherringham, July 29th, 1832, and was. pre- 
sented by Mr. Arthur Upcher. Since that time three 
other specimens, as recorded by Yarrell, have occurred in 
this county, but not of late years. One at Yarmouth in 
the autumn of 1839 or 1840, which came into the posses- 
sion of the late Mr. Heysham, of Carlisle; another in 
the same locality on the 22nd of September, 1841; and 
another on the mud-flats of Breydon, September 20th, 
1843. Of the latter, Mr. W. R. Fisher writes in the 
“ Zoologist” for 1843 (p. 363), “the bird had been ob- 
served for two or three days on the same piece of mud, 
in company with a ruff and a greenshank, the latter of 
which birds was killed at the same time with it. The 
sex was unnoticed.” Both this and the preceding 
bird are now in Mr. J. H. Gurney’s collection.* 
TRINGA PLATYRHYNCHA, Temminck. 
BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 
As stated by Yarrell, the first British killed speci- 
men of this strageler from the north of Europe was 
* The breeding grounds of this species have lately been found 
in Arctic America by the collectors employed by the Smithsonian 
Institution, and its egg has been figured in the “ Proceedings” 
of the Zoological Society for 1867 (pl. xv., fig. 4). It would seem 
to be more nearly allied to the fresh-water or inland sandpipers 
(Totanus) than to those of the shore (Tinga), and a new genus 
Tryngitis has been instituted for its reception. 
