SCOLOPACID^. 



GRALLATORES. 



SCOLOPACIDJE. 



THE PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 



Tringa pectoralis. 



Tringa pectorcdis, Pectoral Sandpiper, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 210. 



EYTON, Earer Brit. Birds, p. 42. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Becasseau pectoral, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. iv. p. 397. 



AN example of another American Sandpiper, the Tringa 

 pectoralis of Prince Charles Bonaparte, has occurred in this 

 country. This bird was killed, October the 17th, 1830, 

 on the borders of Breydon Broad, an extensive sheet of 

 water near Yarmouth in Norfolk, 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. The 

 bird, on dissection, proved to be a female, and was pre- 

 served by the late Mr. J. Harvey. It soon afterwards 

 passed into the possession of Mr. J. D. Hoy, who, 

 believing it to be undescribed as a British bird, had 



