SCOLOPACID^.] 



BUFF- BREASTED SANDPIPER 



TRYNGITES EUFESCENS (Vieillot). 



Explanation of Plate. 



Figure 1. Point Barrow, Alaska, July 3, 1883; Maxfield and Guzman coll. No. 18993 

 U.S. National Museum Collection. 



2. Point Barrow, Alaska, July 3, 1883; Maxfield and Guzman coll. No. 18995 

 U.S. National Museum Collection. 



3. Point Barrow, Alaska, July 3, 1883 ; Maxfield and Guzman coll. No. 18995 

 U.S. National Museum Collection. 



4. Point Barrow, Alaska, June 20, 1883; J. Murdoch coll. No. 18991 

 U.S. National Museum Collection. 



5. Point Barrow, Alaska, June 18, 1883 ; native collector. No. 18990 

 U.S. National Museum Collection. 



6. Point Barrow, Alaska, June 22, 1883 ; native collector. No. 18994 

 U.S. National Museum Collection. 



This American Sandpiper is a rare accidental visitor, there being about a 

 dozen records of its occurrence in England, and one in Ireland. 



Referring to the geographical distribution of this species, Mr. Howard Saunders 

 writes as follows * : — " In summer the Buff-breasted Sandpiper inhabits the Arctic 

 and sub- Arctic portions of the American continent. A female obtained by Dr. Rae 

 on June 14th at Repulse Bay, in the south of Melville Peninsula, is in the British 

 Museum, as are also examples from Fort Simpson ; many sets of eggs were taken 

 by Mr. MacEarlane on the barren-grounds of the Anderson River district, and 

 Mr. Murdoch met with this species nesting plentifully at Point Barrow in Northern 

 Alaska, though on the Yukon and southwards to Sitka it appears to be uncommon. 

 Mr. E. W. Nelson found it rather numerous on August 1st 1880 on the north 

 coast of Siberia to the west of Koliuchin Bay, and says that the birds were 

 evidently on their breeding-grounds there; while Dr. von Middendorff has 

 recorded an example from the Sea of Okhotsk, shot on June 30th. On migration 



'■ Manual of British Birds,' pp. 587, 588. 



