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included the Totanus macularius in the present work. It 

 will be recollected that Montagu states in his Supplement 

 that he had never met with this species. 



Mentioning this intention to my friend Mr. Heysham 

 during his recent visit to London, he immediately told me 

 that on his route from home he had visited Norwich, and 

 had seen in the collection of J. H. Gurney, Esq., the Banker 

 of that city, a British killed specimen of the Spotted Sand- 

 piper, an adult hird, which had been received in the 

 flesh, and preserved for him by Mr. George Johnson of 

 Norwich. 



Mr. J. H. Gurney, with whom I have had the pleasure 

 of being acquainted some years, no sooner knew my wishes 

 on the subject, than he requested Mr. Johnson to send me 

 notice of the place and time of the capture of the recently 

 killed Totanus macularius^ and the following is an extract 

 from Mr. George Johnson's obliging communication. 



" The Bird in question came to me in the meat. It was 

 shot between Eunton and Sherringham on the north east 

 coast of Norfolk, in company with a flock of the Common 

 Sandpiper, five or six of which came into my hands with it. 

 It was killed about the 26th of September, 1839 ; the birds 

 were bought by a friend residing at Cromer, about four 

 miles from Sherringham, who sent them to me not being- 

 aware that any of them were scarce or at all valuable. 

 Your friend Mr. Gurney saw the bird immediately after I 

 had skinned it, and I am extremely happy to afford you 

 any information of the first British specimen of the Spotted 

 Sandpiper that has come to your notice." 



M. Nilsson, in his Fauna of Scandinavia, says that this 

 bird comes often into the North of Europe, and that speci- 

 mens have been killed in the south of Sweden, on the 

 islands in the Baltic, and in Gottland. M. Temmick states 



