PECTOEAL SANDPIPER 



TRINGA MACULATA, Vieill. 



Tringa maculata, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. 

 p. 465 (1819); Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 368 ; Dresser, viii. 



Tringa pectoralis, Macg. iv. p. 190. 



This is an American species, of whose occurrence in 

 our islands from twenty to thirty instances have been 

 recorded at various seasons of the year ; it is very pro- 

 bable that it may often have passed undistinguished 

 amongst a " bunch " of Dunlins killed by a coast- gunner, 

 as it has a certain general similarity to that species in 

 the plumage of autumn and winter; but the present 

 bird is larger than the Dunlin, and the legs and toes, 

 which are always nearly black in that species, are said 

 to be of a yellowish colour in the Pectoral Sandpiper. 

 This bird is stated to range, according to the season, 

 from the arctic regions of North America to Patagonia 

 and Chili. 



The specimen figured in the Plate is a young male 

 killed at Spurn Head on October 2, 1888, and very 

 kindly sent to me for the purposes of the present publi- 

 cation by Mr. John Cordeaux. 



