SPOTTED SANDPIPER. SiB 



collected that Montagu statcKS in liis Supplement that he had 

 never met "with this species. 



Mentioning this intention to my friend Mr. Heyshain 

 during his recent visit to London, he immediately told me 

 that on his route from home he had visited Norwich, and had 

 seen in the collection of J. H. Gurney, Esq. the Banker of 

 that city, a British killed specimen of the Spotted Sandpiper, 

 an adult bird, which had been received in the flesh, and pre- 

 served for him by Mr. George Johnson of Norwich. 



Mr. J. H. Gurney, with Avhom I have had the pleasure of 

 being acquainted some years, no sooner knew my wishes on 

 the subject, than he requested Mr. Johnson to send me notice 

 of the place and time of the capture of the recently killed 

 Totanus macularius, and the following is an extract from Mr. 

 George Johnson's obliging communication. 



" The Bird in question came to me in the meat. It was 

 shot between Runton and Sherringham on the north east 

 coast of Norfolk, in company with a flock of the Common 

 Sandpiper, five or six of which came into my hands with it. 

 It was killed about the 26th of September, 1839 ; the birds 

 were bought by a friend residing at Cromer, about four miles 

 from Sherringham, who sent them to me not being aware that 

 any of them were scarce or at all valuable. Your friend Mr. 

 Gurney saw the bird immediately after I had skinned it, and 

 T am extremely happy to afford you any information of the 

 first British specimen of the Spotted Sandpiper that has come 

 to your notice." 



M. Nilsson, in his Fauna of Scandinavia, says that this 

 bird comes often into the North of Europe, and that speci- 

 mens have been killed in the south of Sweden, on the islands 

 in the Baltic, and in Gottland. M. Temminck states that it 

 has been killed in Germany and on the banks of the Rhine, 

 but not in Holland. Messrs. Meyer and Wolf, and M. 

 Brehm include it in their Birds of Germany. 



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