364 MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON THE OCCURRENCE IN NORFOLK. 
I. 
ON THE OCCURRENCE IN NORFOLK OF THE SIBERIAN 
PECTORAL SANDPIPER 
( T RING A ACUMINATA , horsfield). 
By Thomas Southwell, . F.Z.S., Vice-President. 
Read 27tli September, 1892. 
It is little more than two years since I had the pleasure of 
exhibiting in this room a beautiful specimen of the Caspian Plover, 
and now, through the vigilance of Mr. Lowne of Yarmouth, I am 
enabled to record the addition of yet another rare Asiatic straggler 
to the already long list of Breydon rarities. On the morning of 
the 30th of August Mr. Lowne called upon me with a small, 
freshly killed wader, which he said puzzled him, asking me if 
I could name it for him. Not having any special general work on 
this class of birds at hand I sent it on to Mr. Gurney, who in 
returning it stated his belief that it was an example of HorsUeld’s 
Trinrja acuminata (S. australis of Gould), with which opinion, 
aided by the description in Mr. Seebohm’s ‘ Geographical Distribu- 
tion of the Charadriidte,’ the figures in Gould’s ‘Birds of Australia ’ 
(vol. vi. plate 30), and after the examination of two specimens, 
marked Australia and N. S. Wales respectively, in the Norwich 
Museum, I fully concurred, and this determination of the species 
was subsequently confirmed by Professor Newton. The bird 
was exhibited at a meeting of the Zoological Society on the 
15th November, 1892.'"' This species, which closely resembles 
T. maculata, from which it chiefly differs in having all the under 
parts spotted, and which was originally described by Horsfield from 
* l’.Z.S. .1 802, p. 581. 
