Family CHARADRIID^. Genus Tringa. 



Subfamily Scolopacin^. 



BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 



TRINGA RUFESCENS— K2«7M 



Geographical Distribution. — British .• Rare straggler 

 chiefly on autumn Passage, as is usually the case with abnormal 

 migrants from the New World. The claim of this species to 

 rank as " British " rests on the following recorded occurrences. 

 England: Cambridgeshire (i example); Norfolk (4 examples); 

 Sussex (i example); Cornwall and Scilly Isles (4 examples); 

 Lundy Isle (i example); Lancashire (i example), May, 1829; 

 Cumberland (i example). Scotland : Caithness (i very doubt- 

 ful example). Ireland : Co. Dublin (i example) ; Antrim (2 

 examples). All occurred in autumn with the exception of the 

 Lancashire example, the date of which is open to some doubt. 

 Foreign : Northern Nearctic region, and probably extreme north- 

 east of Palrearctic region ; northern Neotropical region in winter. 

 Breeds in the Arctic regions of America, from Alaska probably 

 to Baffin Bay, although it is unrecorded from Greenland. West- 

 wards it appears to range to the Siberian coasts of Behring Strait, 

 and has been obtained on the southern shore of the Okhotsk 

 Sea. Passes the United States, and occasionally the Bermudas 

 on migration, and winters in Mexico, the West Indies, and the 

 northern portion of South America. A single example has been 

 obtained on Heligoland in May, a date, by the way, which tends 

 to confirm that of the Lancashire example. 



Allied Forms. — None of sufficient propinquity to require 

 notice. 



Time during which the Buff-breasted Sandpiper may 



be taken. — August ist to March ist. 



