228 TRINGA ALPINA.—T. MACULATA. 
[§ 4057. Zwo.—Vadsé, 22 June, 1855. “W. H. S. and 
x. INE” 
From the nest before mentioned (§ 1945), found by Myr. Hudleston and 
myself. One of us shot the bird, and its skin is in the Cambridge Museum. 
The species, as Mr. Wolley has above remarked (§ 4046), was abundant on 
the low ground to the north-east of Vadsié, and the beautiful ringing note 
of the cock bird, while executing his loye-flight, was constantly heard. | 
[§ 4058. Zwo.—Holland, 1855. From Mr. J. Baker. | 
[§ 4059. Zhree—Sanday, Orkney, 1856. From Mr. C. 
Hubbard. | 
[§ 4060. Cne—*J.S8.” From the late Mr. Scales’s collection, 
1885. 
The mark shews it was taken by Mr. Scales himself, and therefore most 
likely near Valkenswaard. } 
TRINGA MACULATA, Vicillot. 
PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 
[i 4061. Zwo.—Point Barrow, Alaska, 7 July, 1883. From 
the United States National Museum, through Prof. 
Baird, 1886. 
Obtained as above by the expedition under Lieut. P. H. Ray, of the United 
States Army, and certified by Capt. Bendire in charge of the Ovlogical 
Department of the Museum. Mr. Murdoch, the naturalist of the party, gives 
an interesting account of the very peculiar habits of the species, and of the 
discovery of its nidification, hitherto unknown, in the ‘ Report of the Inter- 
national Polar Expedition to Point Barrow’ (Washington: 1885), wherein he 
states that it is one of the commonest of the waders occurring in the district 
and that ‘‘ The nest is always built in the grass, with a decided preference for 
high and dry localities like the banks of gulleys and streams. It was some- 
times placed at the edge of a small pool, but always in grass and on a dry 
place, never in the black clay and moss, like the Plover and Buff-breasted Sand- 
pipers, or in the marsh, like the Phalaropes. The nest was like that of the other 
waders, a depression in the ground lined with a little dry grass . . . The eges 
may be distinguished from those of the Buff-breasted Sandpiper, which they 
