SCOLOPACID^.] 



PECTORAL SANDPIPER 



TEINGA MACULATA, Vieillot. 



Explanation of Plate. 



Figure 1. Point Barrow, Alaska, June 28, 1883; Lieut. Ray Expedition. No. 18962 

 U.S. National Museum Collection. 



2. Point Barrow, Alaska, June 28, 1883 ; Lieut. Ray Expedition. No. 18967 

 U.S. National Museum Collection. 



3. Point Barrow, Alaska, July 7, 1883 ; Lieut. Ray Expedition. No. 18975 

 U.S. National Museum Collection. 



4. Point Barrow, Alaska, June 20, 1883; Lieut. Ray Expedition. No. 18960 

 U.S. National Museum Collection. 



5. Point Barrow, Alaska, July 3, 1883; Maxfield and Guzman coll. No, 18971 

 U.S. National Museum Collection. 



6. Point Barrow, Alaska, July 5, 1883; M. Smith coll. No. 18972 U.S. 

 National Museum Collection. 



This American species is a rare accidental visitor, there being about twenty 

 records of its occurrence in the British Islands, nearly all in autumn and 

 winter. 



Referring to the Pectoral Sandpiper, Mr. Howard Saunders writes * : — " This 

 species has not as yet been met with on the Continent of Europe, nor does it 

 appear to have crossed from the American side of Bering Strait to Asia, although 

 its Old World representative, T. acuminata, does occasionally visit Alaska. In 

 summer it is widely, though somewhat irregularly, distributed across the barren- 

 grounds, from Point Barrow and the mouth of the Yukon to Hudson Bay ; while 

 on migration it is common throughout the Dominion of Canada and the United 

 States, except on the coast of the Pacific ; ranging to the Bermudas, Bahamas 

 and West Indies generally, and as far south as Patagonia and Chili. As a 

 straggler it has occurred in Greenland. The breeding-habits of the Pectoral 

 Sandpiper were practically unknown until the United States Expedition to Point 



Manual of British Birds,' pp. 565, 566. 



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