PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 367 
TRINGA PECTORALIS, Bonaparte. 
PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 
The first British killed specimen of this rare Tringa, 
as was the case also with the broad-billed sandpiper, was 
procured on Breydon, and its occurrence is thus recorded 
by the late Mr. J. D. Hoy in the “ Magazine of Natural 
History” for 1837 (new series, vol. i., p. 116) :—“It 
was killed on October 17th, 1830, on the borders of 
Breydon Broad, an extensive sheet of water, near 
Yarmouth, rather celebrated for the numerous rare 
birds which have, at different times, been observed and 
shot on its banks and waters. The person who killed 
it remarked that it was solitary, and its note was new 
to him, which induced him to shoot it. It proved to be 
a female on dissection. It was preserved by the late 
Mr. J. Harvey, of Yarmouth, as a curious variety of 7’. 
variabilis, with some doubts as to whether it might not 
be a new species. I detected the bird in Harvey’s 
collection, and felt convinced it was an undescribed 
species of Tinga.” In corroboration of the above, it is 
stated by Yarrell that Mr. Hoy having obtained posses- 
sion of this bird,* sent it up to him, in London, for 
inspection, where Audubon, then staying in England, 
had an opportunity of examining it, and “he imme- 
diately confirmed the previous notion that the bird was 
an example of the T'ringa pectoralis of America.” 
In the “ Zoologist” for 1849 (p. 2392) Mr. J. H. 
* Dr. Bree mentions this specimen in his description of Mr. 
Hoy’s collection of Birds, at Stoke Nayland, in the “ Field” 
for 1867 (vol. xxx., p. 466):—“I regret to say it is not in the 
collection. Y understand, however, that Mr. Hoy’s surviving 
brother has some of the birds, and probably this may be among 
them.” Possibly the first Norfolk killed broad-billed sandpiper 
may also be in the same hands. 
