Tringa maculata, Vieillot.* 

 THE PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 



Tringa pectoniUs. 



Tringa, Brissonf. — Beak rather longer than the head, sometimes tlecurved, 

 rather flexible, compressed at the base, depressed, dilated, and blunt towards 

 the point, both mandibles grooved along the sides. Nostrils lateral, placed in 

 the membrane of the groove. Legs moderately long, slender, lower part of tibia 

 naked ; three toes in front, divided to their origin ; one too behind, small, and 

 articulated upon the tarsus. Wings moderately long, pointed, the first quill- 

 feather the longest. 



The first example of tliis American Sandpiper whicli was 

 recorded as a straggler to our shores, was killed on the 17th 

 Octoher, 1830, on the borders of Breydon Water, near 

 Yarmouth in Norfolk, so celebrated for the numerous rare 

 birds which have at different times been observed and shot 

 on its banks and waters. The person who killed it remarked 

 that it was solitary, and its note was new to him, which 



* Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 465 (1819). The name of T. pectoralis, 

 Say (Long's Exped. i. p. 171), was not conferred till 1823. 



t Oruithologic, v. p. 177 (1760). Gould (Hbk. B. Australia, ii. p. 254) 

 placed the present species and I'ringa ucuminala (Horsf. ) in a new and undefined 

 genus, Limnocinclus. 



