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PURPLE SANDPIPER. 
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SELNINGER SANDPIPER. BLACK SANDPIPER. SEA SANDPIPER. 
Tring maritima, PENNANT, 
ce Lincolniensis, PENNANT. 
“nigricans, Montacu, 
Se Suri, FLEMING, 
Tringi—..eccssreree? Muaritina—Maritime—belonging to the sea. 
Turs very distinct species is sufficiently common throughout 
Europe, from the shores of the Mediterranean, Italy, Swit- 
zerland, and France, to Holland, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, 
Spitzbergen, and the Faroe Islands. It occurs in the lke 
latitudes in North America. 
Many are found on the coasts of England, Scotland, and 
Wales, and some visit Ireland. In Orkney they are very 
numerous, as also in Shetland. 
They breed in Iceland, and other northern lands. A few 
remain for the purpose in this country. The nest has been 
found in Scotland, and young birds, scarcely able to fly, 
were met with by Mr. Selby, on one of the Fern Islands, 
off the coast of Northumberland. 
In England, the species occurs, or has occurred, in Durham, 
Yorkshire, Norfolk, Suffolk near Ipswich, Essex, Kent, Sussex, 
Devonshire, and Dorsetshire. Also in Cornwall, but not 
commonly, near Gwyllyn Vase, one shot by Mr. Pascoe, 
November 22nd., 1846; one at Swanpool, shot by T. Pas- 
singham, Esq., 1848; one by Mr. G. Copeland, at Pendennis 
Castle. 
I once shot one myself, several years ago, among the rocks 
at low-water, off the end of the ‘Cobb,’ the local name of 
the pier, Lyme Regis. It was, ‘ni fallor,’ in the autumn. It 
