PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 85 



tained the remains of small Crustacea, seeds, and fragments 

 of quartz. j 



I am in this instance also indebted to Mr. Audubon for 

 the specimen of Tringa pectoralis, from which the figure 

 was drawn and the following description taken. 



The beak is dark brown at the point, orange brown at 

 the base ; irides dark brown ; feathers of the top of the 

 head dusky brown, with darker central streaks, and tipped 

 with rufous ; the back of the neck, the wing-coverts, the 

 back, and the tertials dark brown, with lighter-coloured 

 margins ; primaries dusky black, the shaft of the first 

 white ; secondaries dusky black, each with a narrow edge 

 of white ; rump, and upper tail-coverts, and the two mid- 

 dle tail-feathers, which are the longest, black ; the rest of 

 the tail-feathers ash brown tipped with yellowish white ; 

 chin white ; the cheeks, sides arid front of the neck, and 

 the upper part of the breast, greyish white tinged with 

 brown and streaked with dusky black in the line of the 

 shaft of each feather ; lower part of the breast, belly, and 

 under tail-coverts white ; legs and toes yellowish brown ; 

 claws black. 



The whole length is eight inches and three-quarters : 

 the wing from the carpal joint to the end of the first 

 quill-feather, which is the longest, five inches and three- 

 eighths. 



While the account of this Sandpiper was going through 

 the press, Mr. Mitchell very kindly sent me his specimen 

 from Cornwall for my use ; and this bird, killed as stated 

 on the 27th of May, has all the feathers of the back, the 

 scapulars, tertials, and two middle tail-feathers broadly 

 edged with ferruginous, which in my own bird, killed at a 

 different season of the year, are pale brownish white. 



