220 CHARADRIID^E. 



one is said to have been obtained at Yarmouth in 

 Sept. 1848. 



General Distribution. The Siberian Pectoral Sandpiper 

 breeds in north-east Siberia, Kamchatka, and the Com- 

 mander Islands, and visits Alaska in autumn and may 

 possibly breed there. In winter it visits Japan and China, 

 ranging to Australia and New Zealand. It is accidental in 

 the Hawaiian Islands. 



Tringa bairdi. BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. 



Actodromas bairdi Cones, Proc. Acad. Nat, Sci. Phihid. 

 for 1861, p. 194 : Great Slave Lake, Canada. 



Heteropygia bairdi (Coues) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, 

 p. 570 ; Hartert, Bull. B. O. C. xi. 1900, p. 27. 



Bairdi, named in honour of the American ornithologist Spencer Fullerton 

 Baird (1823-1887). 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. It 

 has occurred four times : Sussex, Oct. 1900 and Sept, 1912 ; 

 Norfolk, Sept. 1903 ; St. Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Sept, 1911. 



General Distribution. Baird's Sandpiper breeds in North 

 America from the Arctic coast of Alaska to Hudson Bay. 

 In winter it visits South America, ranging to Argentina and 

 Chile. It is accidental at Walvisch Bay, in southern Africa. 



Tringa fuscicollis. BONAPARTE'S SANDPIPER. 



Tringa fuscicollis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat.xxxiv. 

 1819, p. 461 : Paraguay. 



Tringa fuscicollis Vieill. ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 168 ; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 581. 

 Heteropygia fuscicollis Sharpe, Cat. Birch B. M. xxiv. 1896, 



p. 574. 



Fuacicollis = vfitli a dusky neck, fiomfmcus and collum. 

 Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. It 



