138 EARE VISITANTS. 



BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. Tringites rufescens 



(Vieillot). 

 Hab. North and South America. 



One, Melbourne, Cambridgeshire, Sept. 1826 : Yarrell, Trans. 



Linn. Soc. vol. xvi. p. 109, pi. 11 ; Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. iii. 



p. 60; Eyton, Rarer Brit. Birds, p. 39, figure. 

 One, Formby, Lancashire, May 1829 : Yarrell, op. cit. 

 One, Sherringham, Norfolk, 29th July, 1832 : Yarrell, op. cit.-, 



Stevenson, Birds of Norfolk, vol. ii. p. 359. 

 One, Yarmouth, autumn 1839 : Yarrell, op. cit. ; Stevenson, 



op. cit. 

 One, Yarmouth, 22nd Sept. 1841 : Fisher, Zoologist, 1843, 



p. 182 ; Stevenson, op. cit. In the collection of Mr. J. H. 



Gurney. 



One, Sussex coast, 1843 : Bond, Zoologist, 1843, p. 148. 

 One, Yarmouth, 20th Sept. 1843: Fisher, Zoologist, 1843, 



p. 363. In the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney. 

 One, Marazion, Cornwall, 3rd Sept. 1846 : Rodd, Zoologist, 



1846, p. 1500. 

 One near Dublin : M'Coy, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1845, 



p. 271. In Mus. Nat. Hist. Soc. Dublin. 

 One on the Exe, August 1851 : D' Urban, Guide to Exeter, 



p. 122. 

 One, Lundy Island, 1858 : in possession of Dr. Woodforde, 



of Taunton. 

 One, Land's End, 8th Sept. 1860 : Rodd, Zoologist, 1860, 



p. 7236. 

 Two, People's Park, Belfast, Oct. 1864 : Saunders, Zoologist, 



1866, p. 389 ; Blake Knox, torn. cit. p. 457. 

 One, co. Dublin : Blake Knox, Zoologist, 1866, p. 303. 

 One, Scilly, Sept. 1870 : Rodd, Zoologist, 1870, p. 2346*. 



* Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., informs me that a specimen recorded in 

 the ' Zoologist,' 1857, p. 5791, as a Buff-breasted Sandpiper, was, 

 he believes, a young Ruff. 



