142 RARE VISITANTS. 



One, Belfast Bay, 4th Oct. 1844 : Thompson, Ann. Nat. Hist, 

 vol. xv. p. 309; Nat. Hist. Irel. (Birds), vol. ii. p. 282. 



One, Shoreham, Sussex, Oct. 1845 : Borrer, Zoologist, 1845, 

 p. 1394; Yarrell, op. cit. In the collection of Mr. Borrer. 



One, Breydon Harbour, Yarmouth, 25th May, 1856 : Gurney, 

 Zoologist, 1856, p. 5159; Stevenson, torn. cit. p. 5160. 

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



One, same place, 23rd April, 1868 : Stevenson, Birds of Nor- 

 folk, vol. ii. p. 361. In the collection of Mr. Stevenson. 



BONAPARTE'S SANDPIPER. Tringa bonapartii, 



Schlegel*. 

 Hab. North and South America. 



One, Stoke Heath, Shropshire : Eyton, Fauna of Shropshire, 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. ii. p. 53 ; Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 

 vol. iii. p. 79. 



One, Ireland ; in Belfast Museum : Yarrell, op. cit. 



A pair, Hayle, Cornwall, 13th Oct. 1846 : Rodd, Zoologist, 

 1846, p. 1554. In the collection of Mr. Rodd. 



One, Scilly, Oct. 1854: Rodd, Zoologist, 1854, p. 4512. 



One, Kingsbury, Middlesex, 1856 : Harting, Birds of Middle- 

 sex, p. 273. In the collection of Mr. H. E. Dresser. 



One near Bexhill, Sussex, 8th Oct. 1857 : Kent, Zoologist, 

 1859, p. 6537. In the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney. 



Two, Scilly, Oct. 1870 : Rodd, Zoologist, 1870, pp. 2384, 2409. 



Four, Instow, North Devon, Nov. 1870 : C. Smith, Zoologist, 



1870, p. 2409; Mathew, Zoologist, 1871, p. 2441. In the 

 collections of Mr. Cecil Smith and Rev. M. A. Mathew. 



One, Eastbourne, Sussex, 12th Nov. 1870 : Bates, Zoologist, 



1871, p. 2442. In the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney. 



* This is the Schinz's Sandpiper of Eyton, Yarrell, and other 

 English naturalists. Tringa schinzii of Bonaparte, Amer. Orn. iv. 

 p. 69, pi. 24 (1832), but not of Brehm, Beitrage, iii. p. 355 (1822), 

 and Naumann, Naturg. Yog. Deutschl. vii. p. 453, pi. 187 (1834), 

 whose T. schinzii is only a small variety of the Dunlin, T. alpina. 



