PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 
Tringa pectoralis, JENYNS. HytTon. GOULD. 
TTUNGA—..0.sersoeee is Pectoralis. Pectus—The breast? 
THIs is an American species, and not uncommon in different 
parts of the United States—Maine, Massachusetts, and the 
neighbourhood of Boston; and southwards in Tobago, and 
others of the West Indian Islands, and so on to Brazil. 
In Yorkshire one, of which Thomas George Bonney, Esq., 
of St. John’s College, Cambridge, has written me word, was 
shot near Filey, in the East Riding, a small and quiet sea- 
side place, which, on account of these qualities, I would 
recommend to ornithological students, in preference to Burling- 
ton, or Scarborough, though the ‘Queen of English watering 
places;’ one also on the Tees’ mouth, near Redcar, on the 30th. 
of August, 1853, and another in a grass field at Coatham, 
near there, on the 17th. of October in the same year; both 
are put on record in ‘The Naturalist,’ volume ili, page 275-6, 
by T. S. Rudd, Esq. In Norfolk, one, a female, was shot 
on Breydon Broad, near Yarmouth, on the 80th. of September, 
1858. In Cornwall it has been met with about Gwyllyn 
Vase, near Falmouth; also one on the shore of Annet, one 
of the Isles of Scilly, on the 27th. of May, 1840, by D. W. 
Mitchell, Esq., of Penzance. 
They go north to build in the spring, and return in the 
autumn. 
They are fond of moist and marshy places and the banks 
of rivers, ‘low down in a grassy vale, and near the sea. 
They mingle with other species, and collect in flocks. 
The flight of this Sandpiper is ‘firm, rapid, and well 
sustained. It skims rather low over the surface of the water 
or the land, and at times shoots high up into the air, 
