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Sims for me. A few years afterwards, Mr. John Sims, 

 who had then removed to Norwich, obtained a second 

 example of this species, which was killed at Sherringham 

 on the coast of Norfolk, and which he preseved for the 

 Museum at Norwich. 



For the knowledge of a third specimen, I am indebted 

 to the Rev. T. Staniforth, of Bolton Rectory, Skipton, in 

 whose collection the bird is preserved. This gentleman 

 very kindly at my request, sent me word that his example, 

 which was a male, was killed at Formby on the banks of 

 the river Alt, about thirteen miles north of Liverpool, in 

 May 1829, and was sent to Liverpool market for sale along 

 with some Snipes. A fourth specimen, shot at Yarmouth 

 in the autumn of 1839 or 40, is now in the possession of T. 

 C. Heysham, Esq. of Carlisle, who did me the favour to 

 send his bird to London that I might see it. 



Two specimens of this rare Sandpiper have since been 

 killed at Yarmouth, one in the autumn of 1841, the other 

 about the same time of the year 1843. These were re- 

 corded by J. H. Gurney, Esq. and Mr. W. R. Fisher. 



M. Vieillot includes this species in his Birds of France, 

 on account of its having been found in Picardy by M. 

 Jules de Lamotte. 



This bird was first made known as a species by M. 

 Vieillot, from an example obtained in Louisiana ; and it is 

 described and figured in his Galerie des Oiseaux, as the 

 type of the genus Tringa^ p. 105. pi. 238. It is also de- 

 scribed as Le Tringa roussdtre, Nouv. Diet. d^Hist. Nat. 

 2de edit. torn, xxxiv. p. 470, and Encycl. Meth. p. 1090. 



From M. Natterer, we learn that this bird is common 

 in Brazil ; but though found also in Louisiana and occa- 

 sionally in the more northern states of America, it was not 

 known to Wilson or to the Prince of Musignano. Mr. 

 Nuttall, in his Manual of the Ornithology of the United 



