SOLITAEY SANDPIPER. 



TOT ANUS SOLITARIUS (Wilson). 



Tringa solitaria, Wilson, Amer. Orn. vii. p. 53, pi. 58. fig. 3 

 (1813). 



Totanus solitarius, Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 468, Pref. p. x. 



I find three records only of the occurrence of this 

 American species in Great Britain ; the first, recorded 

 by Gray in the 'Ibis' for 1870, is stated to have been 

 shot some years ago somewhere on the banks of the 

 Clyde, in the higher grounds of Lanarkshire ; the second 

 British specimen was killed in Scilly on September 21st, 

 1882, and is now in the possession of Mr. Dorrien 

 Smith, to whom I am indebted for the loan of the bird 

 for this work ; a third is recorded by Mr. Thomas Cor- 

 nish ('Zoologist,' 1885, p. 113) to have been killed in 

 a marsh near Marazion, and identified by the late 

 W. H. Vingoe, of Penzance, into whose possession it 

 passed ; Mr. Cornish gives no precise date for this 

 occurrence, but as he mentions loc. supra cit. that it was 

 in Vingoe's hands on January 26th, 1885, we may 

 presume that it was killed shortly before that date. 



