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induced him to shoot it. The bird, on dissection, proved to 

 be a female, and was preserved by the late Mr. J. Harvey, of 

 Yarmouth, as a curious variety of the Dunlin, with some 

 doubts as to whether it might not be a new species. It was 

 detected by the late Mr. J. D. Hoy (Mag. Nat. Hist. i. 

 p. 116), who, believing it to be undescribed as a British bird, 

 sent it up to the Author for inspection. Mr. Audubon being 

 then in London, the bird was exhibited to him, as a good 

 authority for American species, and he immediately confirmed 

 the previous notion that the bird was an example of the 

 Pectoral Sandpiper of America.* 



Since that date several well-authenticated specimens have 

 been obtained in the same county. On the 30th September, 

 1853, a female, apparently a bird of the year, was killed near 

 Yarmouth, and recorded (Zool. p. 4124) by Mr. J. H. Gurney, 

 in whose collection it now is. On the 16th September, 

 1865, one killed at Caistor was brought to Mr. Stevenson in 

 the flesh, and a female, which was preserved for the Lynn 

 Museum, was netted on the 9th January, 1868, in Terring- 

 ton Marsh (B. Norfolk, ii. p. 368). 



On the 27th May, 1840, the late D. W. Mitchell, of 

 Penzance, shot a specimen of this Sandpiper while it was 

 resting on some seaweed within a few yards of the water, on 

 the rocky shore of Annet, one of the uninhabited islands at 

 Scilly. On the following day another example was seen, 

 but became so wild, after an unsuccessful shot, that it took 

 off to another island, and escaped altogether. 



Another, as recorded by Mr. W. P. Cocks (Naturalist, 

 1851, p. 137), was obtained at Gyllyngvase East, near 

 Falmouth. In September, 1870, the Kev. J. Jenkinson, 

 while on a visit to the Scilly Islands, shot a bird of this 

 species, which he brought to the late Mr. E. H. Rodd, who 

 a few days later had an opportunity of examining another 

 example secured at the same place ; and before a week had 

 elapsed he received another from his friend Mr. Augustus 

 Pechell (B. of Cornwall, p. 104). In Devonshire two were 



* Dr. Bree, in his account of the collection of the late Mr. Hoy (Field, 1867, 

 xxx. p. 466), says that this specimen is not to be found there. 



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