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Family CHAEADEIID^. Genus Hbtbropygia. 



Subfamily ScOLOPACiNm. 



AMERICAN PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 



HETEEOPYGIA MACULATA— (F^ez^toif). 



Tringa maculata, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 465 (1819) ; Dresser, B. Eur. 



viii. p. 11, pi. 546 (1878) ; Yarrell, Brit. B. ed. 4, iii. p. 368 (1883) ; Lilford, Col. 



Pig. Brit. B. pt. xiv. (1890). 

 Tringa pectoralis (Say) ; Macgill. Brit. B. iv. p. 190 (1852) ; Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. 



iii. p. 201 (1885) ; Seebohm, Col. Fig. Eggs Brit. B. p. 148, pi. 43 (1896). 

 Tringa accuminata pectoralis (Say), Dixon, Nests and Eggs Non-indig. Brit. B. 



p. 266 (1894). 

 Heteropygia maculata (Vieill.), Sharpe, Handb. B. Gt. Brit, iii p. 247 (1896) ; Sharpe, 



Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 562 (1896). 



Geographical Alstrihwtion.— British : The American Pectoral Sand- 

 piper is a rare straggler on migration to our Islands, chiefly in autumn. The 

 claim of this species to rank as " British " rests upon the following recorded 

 occurrences. England : Scilly Isles (four examples, one in May), Cornwall 

 (one example), Devonshire (two examples), Sussex (one example), Kent (one 

 example), Suffolk (four examples), Norfolk (eight examples), Lincolnshire (one 

 example), Yorkshire (five examples), Durham (two examples), Cumberland (one 

 example) , Northumberland (two examples, one in June) . Scotland : Dumbar- 

 tonshire (one example), Aberdeenshire (one example), Orkneys (one example). 

 Ireland : Co. Galway (one example). With the two solitary exceptions noticed, 

 these occurrences have all been in autumn, during August, September, October 

 and November. Foreign : Nearctic and Neotropical regions. In the Northern 

 hemisphere it breeds in the Arctic regions of America above the limits of 

 forest growth, from Alaska in the west to Davis Strait in the east, and has 

 wandered as far as Greenland. It passes the United States, the Bermudas 

 (abnormally) and the Bahamas on migration, and winters in the West Indies, 

 Mexico, Central America, and the South American portion of the Intertropical 

 realm. In the Southern hemisphere it unquestionably breeds in Patagonia, 

 and possibly the Argentine, although the nest has not yet been actually discovered. 



