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only anxious to award the credit of the difcovery of this elegant 

 Britifti Sandpiper to its true fource : we believe it was Mr. Bolton 

 who difcovered it ; it was affuredly Sir Alhton Lever who afforded it 

 publicity. This flight digreflion, we truft, will be the more readily 

 excufed, when it is further added, that the Purple Sandpiper paffes 

 ufually among colle61:ors, even at this period, as an addition to the 

 Britifti Tringae of recent date. Our remarks, however, teftifv the 

 contrary, and very obvioufly demonftrate that the Purple Sandpiper 

 of the Leverian Mufeum, has fuffered the fate of many other of its 

 valuable articles, in having been for years before the public, and yet 

 appearing to have been as little known, or at leaft as little noticed as 

 if it never had been placed there. 



Befides the Leverian fpecimen above recorded, we have another 

 example of the Purple Sandpiper, captured on the Kentifti coaft within 

 the laft four or five years, and which merely differs from that fpecimen, 

 in being fomewhat fmaller or lefs robufl, and in having the general 

 tint of the plumage more inclining to dufky. The length of the 

 former is nine inches ; of the latter, eight inches and three quarters. 



Like the reft of the birds that haunt the fea fhores, the Purple 

 Sandpiper feeds on the fmall marine worms, and infe6ls found on the 

 beach as the tide recedes from the Ihore. 



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