230 BIEDS OF LANCASHIRE. 



GENUS TRYNGITES. 

 BUFF-BEEASTED SANDPIPEE. 



Tryngites rufescens (Vieillot). 



A male bird was killed at Formby, on the banks of 

 the river Alt, about thirteen miles north of Liverpool, 

 in May, 1829, and was sent to Liverpool market for sale 

 along with some Snipes. This specimen passed into the 

 possession of the Eev. T. Staniforth, late of Bolton 

 Eectory, Skipton, who transmitted the record to Yarrell 

 {" Brit. Birds," 4th ed., vol. iii. p. 436). 



GENUS TRINGOIDES. 



COMMON SANDPIPEE. 



Tringoides HYPOLEUcrs (Linnaeus). 



Local Names — SiDnmcr-Snij)^, Sand-Snipe, Sand-pic, 

 Sand-lark, Dicky-di-dee, Willy-wicket. 



A summer visitor, arriving about the middle of April, 

 and leaving in September. The Common Sandpiper 

 prefers the neighbourhood of fast-running, gravelly 

 streams, and in the south of the county and on the 

 lower reaches of all the rivers it is seldom seen except 

 on migration. Li the hilly districts, however, it is more 

 or less common everywhere, and in some localities 

 exceedingly so. Mr. H. Kerr says that in Eossendale 

 it is fairly numerous in the breeding-season, on the 

 Calder and Eibble it is common, while on the Hodder 

 and its tributaries in Bowland it is especially plentiful. 



