APPENDIX. 



ScHiNz's Sandpiper, Tringa Schinzii (Buona- 

 parte). While the foregoing pages were in the 

 press, I accidentally met with a county-killed spe- 

 cimen of this rare Sandpiper in the collection of 

 my friend Mr. H. E. Dresser. He had purchased 

 it at a sale at Messrs. Stevens' in December, 1865, 

 but no particulars respecting it were given in the 

 Sale Catalogue, nor could he ascertain where it 

 had been killed. On taking down the case in 

 which it was mounted, in order to examine the 

 bird more narrowly, I discovered on the back a 

 small label, on which was written, " Schinz's Sand- 

 piper. Shot by Mr. Goodair at Kingsbury Reservoir, 

 1856." 



The particular season at which it was killed 

 does not appear ; but the bird is in winter plumage, 

 and may possibly have found its way to our reser- 

 voir in company with a flock of Dunlins, the only 

 Sandpipers which visit us in winter. 



I have associated the name of Buonaparte with 

 the specific name given above, in order to distin- 

 guish the subject of these notes from the European 

 Tringa Schinzii of Brehm, which is now con- 

 sidered to be only a variety of the Dunlin, Tringa 

 variabilis. 



