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BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa rufescens, SELBY. JENYNS. 



Tringa ? Eufescens Inclining to red. 



M. VIELLOT was the first to establish the specific identity 

 of this species. It is common in North and South America, 

 which is its true country, occurring in Canada, and even 

 farther up, and thence in Louisiana, and near New York and 

 Boston, and in Brazil and other parts. It has, in Europe, 

 been found in France. 



In England, one, the first 'Pioneer' on record of others to 

 this, to them, New England, was shot early in the month of 

 September, in the year 1826, in the parish of Melbourne, in 

 Cambridgeshire; the next was obtained at Sherringham, on 

 the coast of Norfolk, a few years subsequently; a third at 

 Formby, on the bank of the River Alt, in Lancashire, and 

 a fourth at Yarmouth, in Norfolk, in the autumn of 1839 

 or 1840; others have at different times been procured along 

 the coast in the same county one September 22nd., 1841, 

 and another on Breydon, September 20th., 1843. One also 

 in Cornwall, on the sea-coast between Penzance and Marazion, 

 September 3rd., 1846. One, of which Stephen Stone, Esq., 

 of Brighthampton, has informed me, was met with on some 

 low land through which the Isis flows, near Bampton, in 

 Oxfordshire. 



In Ireland one was obtained in Dublin Bay. 



The localities frequented by this species are the banks of 

 rivers or the sea-shore. It does not appear to be shy of 

 consorting with birds of other kinds. 



It feeds on aquatic and other insects, grasshoppers, and 

 small worms. 



Male; weight, two ounces and a half; length, about eight 



