SANDPIPERS. lay 
YELLOWSHANK. Totanus flavipes (Gmelin). 
Hab. North and South America. 
One, Misson, Lincolnshire, winter 1854-55: Yarrell, Hist. 
Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 637. 
One near Tadcaster, Oct. 1858: Sir W. Milner, Zoologist, 
1858, p. 5958: Graham, Naturalist, 1858, p. 291. 
One, Marazion, Cornwall, 12th Oct. 1871: Rodd, Zoologist, 
1871, p. 2807. 
SOLITARY SANDPIPER. Totanus solitarius (Wilson)*. 
Hab. North and South America. 
One on the Clyde, Lanarkshire, “some years ago:” R. Gray, 
Ibis, 1870, p. 292; Birds of the West of Scotland, p. 295. 
BARTRAM’S SANDPIPER. Actiturus bartramius 
(Wilson). 
Hab. North and South America. 
One near Warwick, 31st Oct. 1851: Reid, Zoologist, 1852, 
p- 3380; Gurney, tom. cit. p. 3388; More, Zoologist, 1854, 
p. 4254; Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. 11. p. 633. 
One near Cambridge, 12th Dec. 1854: Tearle, Ilustr. Lond. 
News, 20th Jan. 1855, and figure; Yarrell, op. cit. In the 
collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney. 
One on the Wye, at Bigswear, Gloucestershire, 19th Jan. 1855: 
Morris, Brit. Birds, vol. iv. p. 296. 
One near Falmouth, 18th Nov. 1865: Bullmore, Zoologist, 
1866, p. 87; Cornish Fauna, p. 31f. 
* T. solitarius, Wilson, Am. Orn. vii. p. 53, pl. 58 (1818). F. 
chloropygius, Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. vi. p. 401 (1816). This bird 
closely resembles the Wood Sandpiper (7. glareola), but has the 
upper tail-coverts dark greenish brown instead of white, and each 
feather in the tail is broadly barred with black across both webs. 
+ In the ‘ Zoologist’ for 1864, p. 9118, Mr. Dutton, of Eastbourne, 
reported his possession of a specimen of Bartram’s Sandpiper, shot 
at Newhaven, On examining this bird, however, I found it to be a 
Ruff (Machetes pugnaa) in autumn plumage. 
