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  Mr. 
  H. 
  Seebolim 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  Great 
  Yarmouth, 
  by 
  Mr. 
  T. 
  Ground, 
  has 
  been 
  sent 
  to 
  mc 
  for 
  

   examination 
  by 
  the 
  Editor 
  of 
  ' 
  The 
  Ibis.^ 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  an 
  adult 
  bird, 
  with 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  underparts 
  marked 
  

   with 
  dark 
  brown 
  spots, 
  which 
  are 
  small 
  and 
  nearly 
  terminal 
  

   on 
  the 
  throat 
  and 
  breast, 
  large, 
  subterminal, 
  and 
  squamate 
  

   on 
  the 
  belly 
  and 
  flanks, 
  and 
  large 
  and 
  lanceolate 
  on 
  the 
  

   under 
  tail-coverts. 
  

  

  The 
  squamate 
  markings 
  on 
  the 
  belly, 
  and 
  especially 
  on 
  the 
  

   flanks, 
  are 
  very 
  characteristic 
  of 
  the 
  adult, 
  in 
  summer 
  dress, 
  

   of 
  the 
  Siberian 
  sjiecies, 
  and 
  serve 
  to 
  distinguish 
  it 
  at 
  a 
  glance 
  

   from 
  the 
  adult 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  species, 
  and 
  from 
  the 
  young 
  

   of 
  both, 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  belly 
  is 
  unspotted 
  white 
  and 
  the 
  

   markings 
  on 
  the 
  flanks 
  are 
  confined 
  to 
  a 
  few 
  obscure 
  shaft- 
  

   streaks. 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  also 
  examined 
  a 
  second 
  example 
  which 
  was 
  pre- 
  

   sented 
  to 
  the 
  Norfolk 
  and 
  Norwich 
  Museum 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  

   Mr. 
  J. 
  H. 
  Gurney 
  as 
  an 
  American 
  Pectoral 
  Sandpiper 
  with 
  

   no 
  locality, 
  but 
  dated 
  September 
  1848. 
  It 
  was 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  

   been 
  killed 
  on 
  the 
  Denes 
  near 
  Yarmouth 
  (Gurney, 
  * 
  Zoologist,' 
  

   1849, 
  p. 
  2392), 
  but 
  shortly 
  afterwards 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  two 
  

   examples, 
  also 
  in 
  the 
  flesh, 
  of 
  another 
  American 
  bird 
  (the 
  

   Red-winged 
  Starling) 
  were 
  offered 
  to 
  Mr. 
  Gurney 
  through 
  

   the 
  same 
  source, 
  induced 
  him 
  to 
  believe 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  been 
  

   imposed 
  upon 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  locality 
  (Gurney, 
  'Zoologist,' 
  1849, 
  

   p. 
  2568). 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Gurney's 
  bird 
  is 
  also 
  an 
  adult 
  Siberian 
  Pectoral 
  

   Sandpiper, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  more 
  probable 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  really 
  shot 
  

   near 
  Yarmouth 
  (as 
  was 
  alleged) 
  than 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  brought 
  

   from 
  either 
  its 
  summer-quarters 
  in 
  Eastern 
  Siberia, 
  its 
  

   winter-quarters 
  in 
  Australia 
  or 
  New 
  Zealand, 
  or 
  from 
  Japan 
  

   or 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  islands 
  of 
  the 
  Malay 
  Archipelago 
  which 
  it 
  

   passes 
  on 
  migration. 
  

  

  The 
  Siberian 
  Pectoral 
  Sandpiper 
  has 
  never 
  been 
  properly 
  

   flgured, 
  and 
  in 
  1848 
  it 
  is 
  probable 
  that 
  adult 
  birds 
  in 
  summer 
  

   plumage 
  were 
  unknown. 
  The 
  figure 
  of 
  Tr'inga 
  australis 
  

   (Jardine 
  and 
  Selby, 
  ' 
  Illustrations 
  of 
  Ornithology,' 
  ii. 
  pi. 
  91) 
  

   represents 
  an 
  immature 
  bird 
  which 
  has 
  not 
  lost 
  the 
  wing- 
  

   coverts 
  of 
  its 
  first 
  plumage, 
  and 
  has 
  acquired 
  the 
  narrow 
  

  

  