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THE PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 



Tringa maculata, Vieillot. 



The Pectoral Sandpiper has been observed in the British Islands 

 with far more frequency than any other American species of wader. 

 The first authenticated specimen was shot in October 1830, on 

 Breydon Broad, Norfolk, in which county three more have since 

 been obtained ; Suffolk can claim one, Yorkshire three, Durham 

 two, and Northumberland one — the last (now in possession of Mr. 

 C. M. Adamson) on June 27th 1853. There are also records of one 

 from Eastbourne in Sussex, two from North 1 )evon, one from Fal- 

 mouth in Cornwall, and four from the Scilly Islands — among the last 

 an example on May 27th 1840. The only instance known on the 

 west coast is that of a young female, shot in Cumberland on October 

 1 8th 1888. In Scotland, an immature bird was killed at Don mouth, 

 Aberdeenshire, on October 2nd 1867, andanother (identified by Mr. 

 Harting) near Loch Lomond, on November 24th 1882 ; while as 

 regards Ireland, Mr. Williams of Dublin found in the market a 

 remarkably fat male, sent from. Portumna, co. Galway, with a lot of 

 Snipe, in October 1888. Except where otherwise mentioned, all the 

 above occurrences have taken place in autumn or winter. 



This species has not as yet been met with on the Coiuincni ot 

 Europe, nor does it appear to have crossed from the American side 

 of Bering Strait to Asia, although its Old World representative, 

 T. acuminata, does occasionally visit Alaska. In summer it is 

 widely, though somewhat irregularly, distributed across the barren- 

 grounds, from Point Barrow and the mouth of the Yukon to Hudson 



