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XVI.—Wotes on the Ornithology of Cornwall, for the years 1871-2. 
—By HE. HEARLE Rovpp. 
lee has been only one addition to our Avi-Fauna during the 
past year, that I am aware of ; but it is one of an interesting 
nature to our county, as it adds to our list a species which has 
only occurred once before in Britain, viz:—The Yellow-shanked 
Sandpiper, Yarrell’s Supplement, 637, Totanus flavipes ; Scolopasz 
flavipes (Yellow-shanks Snipe), Wilson Amer. Ornith. 3, 83, 
Jameson’s Edition ; Totanus flavipes, Rich. and Swain, Faun. Boe. 
Amer., 390. It is an American species, common enough on that 
continent, and minutely described by Wilson. Its occurrence in 
Mount’s Bay was duly recorded in the “ Zoologist” for the month 
‘of September, 1871. I give you an extract of the note made at 
the time; and I am very glad that its occurrence took place be- 
fore the completion of Mr. Gould’s work on “The Birds of Great 
Britain,” and during the issue of the new edition of “ Yarrell’s 
British Birds” by Professor Alfred Newton, of Cambridge, as the 
circumstance of its occurrence in Cornwall will now probably be 
recorded in those valuable works of Natural History. A figure 
of this Sandpiper is given in Yarrell’s Supplement to his British 
Birds; the bird being wholly unknown as a British bird at the 
time of the publication of his great work on this branch of 
Natural History. The specimen now under notice was obtained 
from the margin of a pool in a salt marsh near Marazion, and 
- within a very few yards of the sea. It was a male bird, and 
apparently in adult plumage. 
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The bill entirely black, and much more slender than that of the 
Redshank, and shorter by at least } of an inch. In point of size 
and bulk, this bird appears to be intermediate between the Red- 
