BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 



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years afterwards, Mr. John Sims, who had then removed to 

 Norwich, obtained a second example of this species, which 

 was killed at Sherringham on the coast of Norfolk, and which 

 he preserved for the Museum at Norwich, 



For the knowledge of a third specimen, I am indebted 

 to the Rev. T. Staniforth, of Bolton Rectory, Skipton, in 

 Avhose collection the bird is preserved. This gentleman very 

 kindly at my request, sent me word that his example, which 

 was a male, was killed at Formby on the banks of the river 

 Alt, about thirteen miles north of Liverpool, in May 1 829, 

 and was sent to Liverpool market for sale along with some 

 Snipes. A fourth specimen, shot at Yarmouth in the au- 

 tumn of 1839 or 40, is now in the possession of T. C. Hey- 

 sham, Esq. of Carlisle, who did me the favour to send his 

 bird to London that I might see it. 



M. Vicillot includes this species in his Birds of France, 

 on account of its having been found in Picardy by M. Jules 

 de Lamottc. 



This bird was first made known as a species by M. 

 Vieillot, from an example obtained in Louisiana ; and it is 

 described and figured in his Galerie des Oiseaux, as the 

 type of the genus Tringa, p. 105. pi. 238. It is also de- 

 scribed as Le Tringa roussatre, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 

 2de edit. tom. xxxiv. p. 470, and Encycl. Meth. p. 1090. 



From M. Natterer, we learn that this bird is common 

 in Brazil ; but though found also in Louisiana and occa- 

 sionally in the more northern states of America, it was not 

 known to Wilson or to the Prince of Musignano. Mr. 

 Nuttall, in his Manual of the Ornithology of the United 

 States and of Canada, says, " this elegant species, some sea- 

 sons, is not uncommon in the market of Boston, in the months 

 of August and September, being met with near the capes of 

 Massachusetts Bay. My friend Mr. Cooper has also ob- 

 tained specimens from the vicinity of New York ; and it was 



