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THE PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 



Triiiga pcctoralis. Pectoral Sandpiper., Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 210. 

 ,, ,, ,, „ Eyton, Rare Brit. Birds, p. 42. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xxii. 



,, ,, Btcasseav pectoral, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. iv. p. 397. 



An example of another American Sandpiper, the Tringa 

 pectoralis of C. L. Bonaparte has occurred in this country. 

 This bird was killed October the 17th 1830 on the borders 

 of Breydon Broad, an extensive sheet of water near Yar- 

 mouth in Norfolk, rather celebrated for the numerous rare 

 birds which have at different times been observed and shot 

 on its banks and waters. The person who killed it remarked 

 that it was solitary, and its note was new to him, which in- 

 duced him to shoot it. The bird on dissection proved to be 

 a female, and was preserved by the late Mr. J. Harvey. It 



