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BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 



THING A RUFESCENS, Vieill. 



Triuga rufescenS; Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. cFHist. Nat. xxxiv. 



p. 470 (1819) ; Macff. iv. p. 191. 

 Actitis rufescens, Naum. xiii. p. 239. 

 Tryngitcs rufescens, Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 435 ; Dresser, viii. 



p. 111. 



This is a rare and irregular straggler to our country 

 from North America, concerning whose habits and 

 distribution I have no personal knowledge. Some 

 fourteen or fifteen well-authenticated occui'rences of this 

 species in England and Ireland are referred to by 

 Mr. H. Saunders in his ' Manual,' as also one in 

 Heligoland. The specimen from which the accompany- 

 ing figure was taken was shot in September 1870 on 

 the island of Bryher, Scilly, by Mr. Augustus Pechell, 

 who most kindly lent it for the purpose, and has sent 

 the following note with reference to the occurrence : — 

 " I was sitting on a bank at Bryher, SO or 100 yards 

 from a small freshwater pool, when the bird came, and 

 after flying round settled, and ran about the edge of the 

 pool ; I saw it was a stranger, and was moving to stalk 



