140 RARE VISITANTS. 



Two, Aberdeen?, Aug. 1867 1 Gray, Birds of West of Scot- 

 land, p. 299. 



One near Mildenhall, Suffolk, 1869 : Tuck, Zoologist, 1871, 

 p. 2684*. 



PECTOEAL SANDPIPEK. Tringa maculata, Vieillotf. 

 Hob. North and South America. 



One, Breydon Harbour, Yarmouth, 17th Oct. 1830: Hoy, 



Mag. Nat. Hist. 1837, p. 116; Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 



vol. iii. p. 82. 

 One, Annet I., Scilly, 27th May, 1840 : Rodd, Zoologist, 



1843, p. 141 : Yarrell, op. cit. 

 One, Hartlepool, Oct. 1841 : Yarrell, op. cit. ; Hogg, Cat. 



Birds Durham, p. 28. 

 One, Gwyllyn Vase, near Falmouth : Cocks, Contrib. Faun. 



Falmouth, Naturalist, 1851, p. 137. 



One, Teesmouth, August 1853 : Rudd, Naturalist, 1853, p. 275. 

 One near Yarmouth, 30th Sept. 1853 : (xurney, Zoologist, 



1853, p. 4124 ; Stevenson, Birds of Norfolk, vol. ii. p. 368 J. 



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



* A specimen of the Spotted Sandpiper in my collection, purchased 

 some years since of Mr. H. Burton, was said to have been shot, with 

 another, out of a small flock of Sandpipers, on the Kentish coast, by 

 a man from whom he was in the habit of buying freshly killed birds ; 

 but I have been unable to obtain any further particulars. The 

 price asked and given for it (only two or three shillings) seemed to 

 indicate an ignorance of its value as a British killed specimen, and 

 to preclude the notion of attempted imposition. 



f Tringa maculata, Yieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 465 

 (1819). Tringa pectoralis, Say, Long's Exped. i. p. 171 (1823). 



i In the 'Zoologist' for 1849 (p. 2392), Mr. J. H. Gurney re- 

 corded a specimen of this Sandpiper as having been shot on the 

 Denes at Yarmouth in September 1848 ; but in a subsequent note 

 in the same journal he states that he had been imposed upon, and 

 that the skin was a foreign one. 



