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which was killed at Sherringham, on the coast of 

 Norfolk, and which he preserved for the Norwich 

 Museum." Amongst the British birds in that institu- 

 tion (No. 240) this local rarity, although in rather a 

 dilapidated condition, is still preserved, and according 

 to an entry in the donation book of that date, it was 

 killed at Sherringham, July 29th, 1832, and was pre- 

 sented by Mr. Arthur Upcher. Since that time three 

 other specimens, as recorded by Yarrell, have occurred in 

 this county, but not of late years. One at Yarmouth in 

 the autumn of 1839 or 1840, which came into the posses- 

 sion of the late Mr. Heysham, of Carlisle; another in 

 the same locality on the 22nd of September, 1841 ; and 

 another on the mud-flats of Breydon, September 20th, 

 1843. Of the latter, Mr. W. E. Fisher writes in the 

 "Zoologist" for 1843 (p. 363), "the bird had been ob- 

 served for two or three days on the same piece of mud, 

 in company with a ruff and a greenshank, the latter of 

 which birds was killed at the same time with it. The 

 sex was unnoticed." Both this and the preceding 

 bird are now in Mr. J. H. Gurney's collection.* 



TRINGA PLATYRHYNCHA, Temminck. 

 BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 



As stated by Yarrell, the first British killed speci- 

 men of this straggler from the north of Europe was 



* The breeding grounds of this species have lately been found 

 in Arctic America by the collectors employed by the Smithsonian 

 Institution, and its egg has been figured in the "Proceedings" 

 of the Zoological Society for 1867 (pi. xv., fig. 4). It would seem 

 to be nJore nearly allied to the fresh-water or inland sandpipers 

 (Totanus) than to those of the shore (Tringa), and a new genus 

 Tryngitis has been instituted for its reception. 



