LIM1COL&. 



BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPEK. 435 



SCOLOPACJDM. 



TEYNGITES RUFES<;ENS (Vieillot*). 

 THE BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 

 Tringa rufescens. 



TRYNGITES, Cabanis^. Bill about as long as the bead, slender, straight, de- 

 em ved and obtuse at the tip ; nasal groove long ; nostrils basal, linear, rather 

 large. Wings pointed, the fire>t quill-feather the longest. Tail moderate, doubly 

 emarginate. Legs moderate, slender, the tibia bare for a considerable distance ; 

 tarsus compressed, slender, scutellate, anterior toes scutellate, marginate ; hind 

 toe small, elevated ; claws small, arcbed, slender, slightly acute. 



THE Author had the gratification of obtaining the speci- 

 men of the interesting and prettily-marked Sandpiper, from 

 which the figure above was taken, in the autumn of 1826, 

 when at Royston ; and soon afterwards made it known as a 

 new visitor to England and Europe in the Transactions of 

 the Linnean Society, xvi. p. 109, pi. 11. This bird was 

 shot early in the month of September, 1826, in the parish 

 of Melbourne, in Cambridgeshire, in company with some 



* Tringa rufesctns, Vieillotj Nouv. Diet, xxxiv. p. 470 (1819). 

 t Journal fur Ornithologie, 1856, p. 418 



