PURPLE SANDPIPER. 



TRINGA STRIATA, Linn. 



Tringa striata, Linn. S. N. i. p. 248 (1766) ; Yarr. ed. 4, 



iii. p. 408; Dresser, viii. p. 69. 

 Tringa maritima, Naum. vii. p. 467; Macg. iv. p. 197; 



Uewitson, ii. p. 366. 



Becasseau violet, French; See-Strandldufer, German. 



This bird is not uncommon on our coasts dming the 

 autumn, winter, and early spring, but it has not been 

 as yet positively ascertained to breed in any part of 

 the British Islands. My own acquaintance with the 

 Purple Sandpiper is very scanty, being entirely confined 

 to a few rocky localities in Wales and the west of 

 Ireland. In the latter part of the world I found two of 

 these birds late in June ; and I firmly believe that they 

 had eggs in the close neighbourhood of the spot about 

 which I constantly saw them ; but the continued swell 

 that broke upon the coast rendered a landing always 

 difficult, and often impossible, and I was obliged to 

 content myself with an unproven inward conviction. 

 In other localities I have generally met with this species 



