24:6 PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 



Since the publication of Mr. Selby's work on 

 British Ornithology, three species of Tringa have 

 been discovered to be occasional visitants on our 

 coasts, and although they are of very rare occur- 

 rence, our volume would be incomplete without 

 some notice of them, however short, and though it 

 is not derived from observation. 



PECTORAL SANDPIPER, T. PECTORALIS, Bonap. 

 Pelinda pectoralis^ Bonap. Comp. List. Becasseau 

 pectoral^ Temm. Pectoral Sandpiper, Jenyns, Yar- 

 rell) and modern British authors. Two specimens 

 of this species have been killed in Britain, one of 

 them on Brydon Board in Norfolk. One or two other 

 birds have been seen in the same country, but none 

 have yet occurred in Scotland or Ireland. It is an 

 American species, and seems to have been first 

 detected as such by Mr. Say, and afterwards to have 

 received a regular place in the histories of American 

 ornithology. Mr. Audubon met with them " in the 

 State of Maine, feeding on the rocky bars of the rivers 

 at low water ;" and states that Nuttall found them 

 in. abundance in Massachusetts Bay, where they are 

 migratory, and whence they are brought in numbers 

 to the market in Boston, during their temporary 

 abode. They extend also to the Southern Con- 

 tinent, are found in the Brazils ; * and we have 

 received the bird from the island of Tobago. We 

 are not aware of any other extra European range. 

 * Bonapart auct. Yarrell. 



