RARER BRITISH BIRDS. 39 



BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Rufescens. VIELLOT. 



IN a paper in the sixteenth volume of the " Linnaean Trans- 

 actions," by Mr. Yarrell, entitled, " Description of a Species 

 of Tringa, killed in Cambridgeshire, new to England and 

 Europe," will be found the only notice of the capture of this 

 bird in the United Kingdom. A plate of the bird described 

 is attached to the paper, taken from the specimen killed in 

 Cambridgeshire, the only one which has been hitherto met with 

 in either the United Kingdom or European Continent. 



We are indebted to the kindness of Mr. Yarrell, for being 

 enabled to present our readers with the above cut, his specimen 

 having been lent to us for that purpose. It was shot, early 

 in the month of September 1826, near Melbourne, in Cam- 

 bridgeshire, in company with some Dotterell, and passed im- 

 mediately afterwards into the possession of Mr. Baker, of 

 Melbourne, by whom the skin was preserved, and from whom 

 it was purchased for Mr. Yarrell. In the same paper, also, 



