LIMICOLM. 



BUFF-BREASTM) SANDPIPER. 435 



SCOLOPACIDM. 



Tryngites rufescens (Vieillot*). 

 THE BUFF-BEEASTED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa rufescens. 



Tryngites, Cahanisf. — Bill abowt as long as the head, slender, straight, de- 

 curved and obtuse at the tip ; nasal groove long ; nostrils basal, linear, rather 

 large. Wings pointed, the firat quill-feather the longest. Tail moderate, doubly 

 cmarginate. Legs moderate, slender, the tibia bare for a considerable distance ; 

 tarsus compressed, slender, scutellate, anterior toes scutellate, mirginate ; hind 

 toe small, elevated ; claws small, arched, slender, slightly acute. 



The Author had the gratification of obtaining the S2Deci- 

 men of the interesting and prettily- marked Sandpiper, from 

 which the figure above was taken, in the autumn of 1826, 

 when at Royston ; and soon afterwards made it known as a 

 new visitor to England and Europe in the Transactions of 

 the Linnean Society, xvi. p. 109, pi. 11. This bird was 

 shot early in the month of September, 1826, in the parish 

 of Melbourne, in Cambridgeshire, in company with some 



* Tringa rufescins, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, xxxiv. p. 470 (1819). 

 + Journal fiir Ornithologie, 1856, p. 418 



