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THE YELLOW LEGGED SANDPIPER. 
(ToTANus FLAVIPES.) 
Rejected from the B.O.U. List. 
Admitted by A. Saunders. 
Admitted by Seebohm. 
The two first occurrences of ‘Flavipes’ are not considered 
quite authenticated. Wowever, both Mr. Saunders, and 
Mr. Seebohm have no hesitation about admitting se 
adult male recorded in the Zoologist for 1871, as shot by 
Mr. FE. Vingoe, on 12th September, 1871, 02 the margin 
of a pool in a salt marsh, near Marazton, about two miles 
from Penzance.” 
This Mr. Saunders calls the ‘“‘second genuine speci- 
men”? of the bird. 
The admission to the list, on a single occurrence 
of a bird on the word of a “ Dealer” has not always 
been judged admissible ; as I have previously said, we 
cannot reject the word of persons of known respectability, 
in the case of specimens for private collections, this, how- 
ever, 18 more Serious. 
The eggs, according to Davie, are creamy, or clay 
colour; heavily blotched with chocolate, and umber; 
shell markings numerous; 1.40 by 1.10 inches. 
THE BAR-TAILED GODWIT. 
(Totanus RuFus.) 
The eggs of Rufus are some of them probably indis- 
tinguishable from those of ‘Melanurus.’ Zhe breeding 
station of ‘Rufus’ is more zorthern than that which 
‘Melanurus’ visits; whose northernmost range is latitude 
550, to00°: 
