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present work. It will be recollected that Montagu states 

 in his Supplement that he had never met with this species. 



Mentioning this intention to my friend Mr. Heysham, 

 on his visiting London, he immediately told me that on 

 his route from home he had visited Norwich, and had 

 seen in the collection of J. H. Gurney, Esq., the banker 

 of that city, a British-killed specimen of the Spotted 

 Sandpiper, an adult bird, which had been received in the 

 flesh, and preserved for him by Mr. George Johnson, of 

 Norwich. 



Mr. J. H. Gurney, with whom I have had the pleasure 

 and advantage of being acquainted many years, no sooner 

 knew my wishes on the subject, than he requested Mr. 

 Johnson to send me notice of the place and time of the 

 capture of the recently-killed Totanus macularius, and the 

 following is an extract from Mr. George Johnson's obliging 

 communication : 



" The bird in question came to me in the meat. It was 

 shot between Runton and Sherringham on the north-east 

 coast of Norfolk, in company with a flock of the Common 

 Sandpiper, five or six of which came into my hands with it. 

 It was killed about the 26th of September, 1839; the birds 

 were bought by a friend residing at Cromer, about four 

 miles from Sherringham, who sent them to me, not being 

 aware that any of them were scarce or at all valuable. 

 Your friend Mr. Gurney saw the bird immediately after I 

 had skinned it, and I am extremely happy to afford you 

 any information of the first British specimen of the Spotted 

 Sandpiper that has come to your notice." 



Mr. E. T. Higgins, of Spurrier Gate, York, saw a 

 specimen of the Spotted Sandpiper on the beach at Brid- 

 lington Quay, in March, 1848. It was very tame, and 

 was approached within about fifteen yards, as recorded in 

 the Zoologist for 1848, p. 2147. 



