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small beetles, which were submitted to Mr. E. C. Rye, who 

 could find nothing to make him believe that the bits were 

 other than the remains of British insects. And lastly, 

 Mr. Harting has shown to the Editor a letter from Mr. T. 

 Cornish, announcing the capture of another at St. Keverne, 

 near the Lizard, Cornwall, last October (1883).* Of other 

 so-called specimens on record several have proved to be 

 examples of the Ruff. 



There are several records of the visits of Bartram's Sand- 

 piper to other parts of Europe, but the correctness of some 

 of them is open to question. Amongst these, one in Sweden, 

 of which, according to Professor Meves, there is no evidence ; 

 one in Holland ; and one, according to Naumann, in Hesse. 

 The genuine occurrences are, the one obtained by Mr. C. A. 

 Wright at Malta, on the 17th November, 1865 (Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 247) ; and the one recorded by Dr. Salvadori, killed in 

 Liguria in 1859, now in the collection at the Museo Civico 

 of Genoa. As a straggler it appears to have occurred in 

 Australia, for Gould states that he has examined a specimen 

 shot near Botany Bay. 



In America, Richardson observed it on the plains of the 

 Saskatchewan in May, 1827, and it is well known in Canada 

 and Nova Scotia. It appears to be generally distributed 

 during the summer over the northern and central portions 

 of the United States to Illinois and Pennsylvania, where 

 it is known as the ' Upland Plover ' or ' Field Plover.' It 

 is especially abundant on the great plains on the eastern 

 side of the Rocky Mountains, where it is called the ' Prairie 

 Pigeon ' ; but as yet it is not known to cross that natural 

 barrier, although it has been found so near as the Big Blue 

 River, Utah ; and in the north-west it was obtained by 

 Mr. Dall on the Yukon river, Alaska. On migration it occurs 

 in considerable numbers both in autumn and spring, and at 

 the latter season Dr. Elliott Coues says that vast flocks pass 

 through Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, and Dakota, 



* The contemporaneous capture of a Pectoral Sandpiper (Tringa maculata) 

 in the Scilly Islands was announced in the same letter ; but too late for insertion 

 in the chapter on that species. 



