SCOLOPACID.E. 



SCOLOPACIDJZ. 



THE BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa riff esc ens. 



Tringa rufescens, Buff-breasted Tringa, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. 



p. 142. 



Sandpiper, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 214. 



EYTON, Barer Brit. Birds, p. 39. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Becasseau rousset, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. pt. iv. 



p. 408. 



I HAD the gratification of obtaining the specimen of the 

 interesting and prettily-marked Sandpiper, from which the 

 figure above was taken, in the autumn of 1826, when at 

 Royston ; and soon afterwards made it known as a new 

 visitor to England and Europe in the Transactions of the 

 Linnean Society. This bird was shot early in the month 

 of September, 1826, in the parish of Melbourne, in Cam- 

 bridgeshire, in company with some Dotterell (Charadrius 

 morinellus) ; and passed immediately afterwards into the 

 possession of Mr. Baker of Melbourne, by whom the skin 

 was preserved, and of whom it was purchased by John 



