CHARADRIID&. 605* 
THE SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 
ToTanus MAcuLARtus (Linnzus). 
Since the Note on p. 606 was written, an example of this species 
upon which no doubt rests has been obtained in Ireland, and was 
exhibited by Mr. Frederick Curtis at a meeting of the British 
Ornithologists’ Club on the 15th of February 1899. The bird, 
which proved to be a female on dissection, was shot on the 2nd of 
that month near Finea, co. Longford, by Mr. Frank Roberts of 
Windsor, and sent by him in the flesh to Mr. C. A. Veysey of 
Windsor, who, in his turn, is a personal friend of Mr. Curtis. 
The bird was very tame, and was feeding, when shot, in a meadow 
much trodden by cattle by the side of the river Finea, and within 
thirty yards of the village of the same name. There can now be no 
reason for refusing this species a place in the list of occasional 
visitors to the British Islands; and indeed the probability of its 
occurrence was never doubted, although the fact had not been 
satisfactorily established. 
This American species has never been secured in Heligoland, and 
Dr. Anton Reichenow does not include it among the visitors to 
Germany, notwithstanding a French record of its acquisition on the 
22nd of April 1875 at “Spire, Bavitre rhénane.” In North America 
to the south of the Arctic Circle this Sandpiper has a very extensive 
range, breeding from Labrador to Texas, and from the shores of 
the Atlantic to the mouth of the Yukon. It is found up to an 
elevation of 8,000 to 9,000 feet, and even to the shores of the 
