BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 
Tringa rufescens, SELBY. JENYNS. 
Tringa—..sccccceers ? Rufescens—Inclining to red, 
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M. VrEeLLoT was the first to establish the specific identity 
of this species. It is common in North and South America, 
which is its true country, occurring in Canada, and even 
farther up, and thence in Louisiana, and near New York and 
Boston, and in Brazil and other parts. It has, in Europe, 
been found in France. 
In England, one, the first ‘Pioneer’ on record of others to 
this, to them, New England, was shot early in the month of 
September, in the year 1826, in the parish of Melbourne, in 
Cambridgeshire; the next was obtained at Sherringham, on 
the coast of Norfolk, a few years subsequently; a third at 
Formby, on the bank of the River Alt, in Lancashire, and ° 
a fourth at Yarmouth, in Norfolk, in the autumn of 1839 
or 1840; others have at different times been procured along 
the coast in the same county—one September 22nd., 1841, 
and another on Breydon, September 20th., 1843. One also 
in Cornwall, on the sea-coast between Penzance and Marazion, 
September 3rd., 1846. One, of which Stephen Stone, Esq., 
of Brighthampton, has informed me, was met with on some 
low land through which the Isis flows, near Bampton, in 
Oxfordshire. 
In Ireland one was obtained in Dublin Bay. 
The localities frequented by this species are the banks of 
rivers or the sea-shore. It does not appear to be shy of 
consorting with birds of other kinds. 
It feeds on aquatic and other insects, grasshoppers, and 
small worms. 
Male; weight, two ounces and a half; length, about eight 
