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BARTRAM'S SANDPIPER. 

 Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein). 



The first authenticated occurrence of this larger wanderer from 

 America was near Warwick at the end of October 185 1 ; a second 

 example (in the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney) was killed in a 

 ploughed field in Cambridgeshire on December 12th 1855 ; one, 

 now in the Taunton Museum, appears to have been obtained more 

 than forty years ago on the banks of the Parret in Somersetshire ; 

 Dr. Bullmore has a Cornish specimen shot on November 13th 

 1865, and Dr. Leverton of Truro has another taken in October 

 1883 ; Mr. G. Bolam acquired one from the sea-banks of North- 

 umberland on November 21st 1879 ; and a freshly-killed specimen, 

 purchased in Leadenhall Market and said to come from Lincoln- 

 shire, was identified by Mr. Harting on October 27th 1880. Mr. 

 More has examined a bird said to have been sent to a Dublin game- 

 dealer from Ballinasloe, co. Galway, in the autumn of 1855, and 

 believes the statement to be correct. 



There are several records of the visits of jjartram's Sand[)iper to 

 the Continent, but the only satisfactory instances are tho^e of a bird 

 killed in Liguria in 1S59 (now in the Museo Civico at Genoa), and 

 another obtained at Malta on November 17th 1865 by Mr. C. A. 



