PECTORAL SANDPIPER. oG7 



TRINGA PECTOKALIS, Bonaparte. 

 PECTOEAL SANDPIPEK. 



The first British killed specimen of this rare Tringa, 

 as was the case also with the broad-billed sandpiper, was 

 procured on Breydon, and its occurrence is thus recorded 

 by the late Mr. J. D. Hoy in the " Magazine of Natural 

 History" for 1837 (new series, vol. i., p. 116): "It 

 was killed on October 17th, 1830, on the borders of 

 Breydon Broad, an extensive sheet of water, near 

 Yarmouth, 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 induced him to shoot it. It proved to be 

 a female on dissection. It was preserved by the late 

 Mr. J. Harvey, of Yarmouth, as a curious variety of T. 

 variabilisy with some doubts as to whether it might not 

 be a new species. I detected the bird in Harvey's 

 collection, and felt convinced it was an undescribed 

 species of Tringa." In corroboration of the above, it is 

 stated by Yarrell that Mr. Hoy having obtained posses- 

 sion of this bird,* sent it up to him, in London, for 

 inspection, where Audubon, then staying in England, 

 had an opportunity of examining it, and " he imme- 

 diately confirmed the previous notion that the bird was 

 an example of the Tringa pectoralis of America." 



In the "Zoologist" for 1849 (p. 2392) Mr. J. H. 



* Dr. Bree mentions this specimen in his description of Mr. 

 Hoy's collection of Birds, at Stoke Nayland, in the "Field" 

 for 1867 (vol. xxx., p. 466): "I regret to say it is not in the 

 collection. I understand, however, that Mr. Hoy's surviving 

 brother has some of the birds, and probably this may be among 

 them." Possibly the first Norfolk killed broad-billed sandpiper 

 may also be in the same hands. 



