240 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK, 



A native of North and South America, a mere straggler 

 to Europe ; most of the recorded occurrences have taken 

 place in Great Britain (Dresser B. of Eur. viii., 112-13). 



*Spotted Sandpiper, Tringoides macularius (L.). 



7. One taken near Mildenhall Jan. 1869 (Bilson Journ. Suff. Inst. 

 46) ; formerly in possession of the late Mr. Sparke of Well Street, Bury 

 St. Edmund's. Mr. Tuck saw it soon after it was stuffed, when the flesh- 

 coloured legs and spotted breast were unmistakeable (J. G. Tuck in 

 Z. 2nd S. 2684, and v. v.). I have been unable to trace the bird (C. B.). 



Essentially a New-world species. The few stragglers into 

 Europe seem hitherto to have been found in Great Britain 

 alone (Dresser, B. of Eur. viii., 11-12). 



Pectoral Sandpiper, Tringa maculata, Vieillot. 



1. A female in the plumage of the first autumn obtained Sept. 30, 1853, 

 near Yarmouth ; it was examined by Mr. J. H. Gurney in the flesh 

 (Stevenson's B. of N. ii., 368, and J. H. Gurney in Z. 4124). A female 

 obtained on Breydon Broad Oct. 1830, examined by M. Audubon 

 (Hoy in Loudon's Mag. N. K, i., N.S. (1837), 116 ; Yarrell's Br. B. 

 iii., 368, Ed. iv.) ; this was the first British killed specimen (Steven- 

 son's B. ofN. ii., 367). Dr. Bree, in his Catalogue of the Hoy Collec- 

 tion, said that this bird had been lost ; but it is in Mrs. Lescher's 

 possession, who has kindly permitted an autotype from it to be made 

 for this work (C. B. !).* 



2. One shot on Thorpe Mere, Oct. 5, 1870 {Field, Oct. 15, 1870, 

 quoted in Harting's Handbook, 141); another shot there in Sept. 

 1872, by Mr. J. Tuck ; now in his Collection (J. G. Tuck in Z. 

 2nd S. 3*307) ; and a third in Nov. 1883 (Hele in Hit.). A male specimen 

 obtained in the further mere, Aldeburgh, Oct. 1870 (Ipswich Museum ; 

 C. B. !). 



A native of North America. 



Broad-Billed Sandpiper, Tringa platyrhyncha, Temminck. 



1. One obtained on the muddy flats of Breydon Broad, May 25, 1836 

 (Hoy in Loudon's Mag. N. H. i , N.S. (1837) 116); this specimen was 

 the 'first taken in Great Britain (Stevenson's B. of N. Introd. xviii. 

 note, and ii., 360). A male bird taken at Breydon in May 1856 

 (Southwell in Nat. 1856, 259); it is now in Mr. J. H. Gurney's 

 Collection (C. B. !); a male assuming summer plumage from Breydon 

 April 1858, now in Mr. Stevenson's Collection, figured by Gould 

 (Stevenson's B. of N. ii., 360-1, and in Z. 6096 ; J. H. Gurney in Z. 

 5159; C.B. !). 



* Mis. Lescher allowed me to send this bird to Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., who 

 identified it as the Pectoral Sandpiper. 



