SANDPIPERS. 137 



YELLOWSHANK. Totanus flawpes (Gmelin). 



Hob. North and South America. 

 One, Misson, Lincolnshire, winter 1854-55 : Yarrell, Hist. 



Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 637. 

 One near Tadcaster, Oct. 1858 : Sir W. Milner, Zoologist, 



1858, p. 5958: Graham, Naturalist, 1858, p. 291. 

 One, Marazion, Cornwall, 12th Oct. 1871 : Rodd, Zoologist, 



1871, p. 2807. 



SOLITAEY SANDPIPER. Totanus solitarius (Wilson)*. 



Hob. North and South America. 

 One on the Clyde, Lanarkshire, " some years ago : " R. Gray, 



Ibis, 1870, p. 292; Birds of the West of Scotland, p. 295. 



BARTRAM'S SANDPIPER. Actiturus lartramius 

 (Wilson). 



Hob. North and South America. 

 One near Warwick, 31st Oct. 1851 : Reid, Zoologist, 1852, 



p. 3330 ; Gurney, torn. cit. p. 3388 ; More, Zoologist, 1854, 



p. 4254; Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 633. 

 One near Cambridge, 12th Dec. 1854 : Tearle, Illustr. Lond. 



News, 20th Jan. 1855, and figure ; Yarrell, op. cit. In the 



collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney. 

 One on the Wye, at Bigswear, Gloucestershire, 19th Jan. 1855 : 



Morris, Brit. Birds, vol. iv. p. 296. 

 One near Falmouth, 13th Nov. 1865 : Bullmore, Zoologist, 



1866, p. 37; Cornish Fauna, p. 31 f. 



* T. solitarius, Wilson, Am. Orn. vii. p. 53, pi. 58 (1813). T. 

 chloropygius, Yieillot, Nouv. Diet. vi. p. 401 (1816). This bird 

 closely resembles the Wood Sandpiper (T. glareold), but has the 

 upper tail-coverts dark greenish brown instead of white, and each 

 feather in the tail is broadly barred with black across both webs. 



t In the ' Zoologist ' for 1864, p. 9118, Mr. Dutton, of Eastbourne, 

 reported his possession of a specimen of Bartram's Sandpiper, shot 

 at Newhaven. On examining this bird, however, I found it to be a 

 Ruff (Machetes pugnax) in autumn plumage. 



