480 

 LIMICOL^E. 



SCOLOPACID/E. 



SCOLOPACIDM. 



TOTANUS FLA.VIPES (Gmelin *). 

 THE YELLOW-SHANKED SANDPIPER. 



Totanus flavipes. 



THE first recorded British example of this American Sand- 

 piper was killed at Misson, in Nottinghamshire, about two 

 and a half miles north-east of Bawtry, on the borders of 

 Lincolnshire, by one of a small party of men, residing at 

 Misson, who got their living by shooting wild-fowl, during 

 the season, which they sent to Doncaster for sale. This 

 bird passed into the hands of the late Mr. Hugh Reid, of 

 Doncaster, who, considering it to be a Wood Sandpiper, 

 and a rare species, caused it to be carefully preserved by his 

 own assistant, and sold it afterwards to the then Sir William 

 Milner, Bart., by whom it was brought to London in the 

 spring of 1855, and appropriated to the Author's use in this 



* Scolopax flavipes, Gmelin, Sjst. Nat. i. p. 659 (1788). 



