366 MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON THE OCCURRENCE IN NORFOLK 
T. maculata (see ante p. 203) I find the wing from the flexure to 
the end of the first quill feather is much shorter (133 '6 m.m. 
against 138 - 5S m.m.); the bill also is much shorter (23'6 against 
27 ‘83 m.m.); on the other hand the tarsus is longer (30 against 
28'6 m.m. in T. maculata), as is the middle toe and claw (28 - 6 
against 27 m.m.). 
It is a remarkable circumstance that this bird should have been 
killed in the same locality as the first British example of its New 
World ally, the Pectoral Sandpiper, which was met with on the 
17th October, 1830 ; and it is equally curious that whereas many 
rare Continental wanderers have been procured at Blakeney and 
other parts of the Norfolk coast, the rare waders from the Trans- 
Caspian and Northern America have in almost every case been first 
obtained at or near Yarmouth. 
The close similarity between these two species (or races) of 
Tmuja led me to re-examine all the Norfolk-killed specimens of 
T. maculata, in order to ascertain whether they were correctly 
named. This I found to be the case with six of the eight examples; 
the two remaining are one in the possession of Mr. Chase, of 
Birmingham, which he informs Mr. Gurney is certainly T. maculata; 
and of Hoy’s bird already mentioned as killed in 1830, of which 
there is a photograph in Babington’s ‘Birds of Suffolk.’ This 
also appears to be correctly named ; but on referring to the specimen 
mentioned by Mr. Stevenson (‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ vol. ii. p. 367) now 
in the Norwich Museum, it proves to be an undoubted example of 
the Siberian form. The history of this bird is as follows : In the 
winter of 1848 — 9, t he late Mr. Gurney purchased of a man named 
AVilmot, for the sum of £5, a Sandpiper which he stated he had 
killed at Yarmouth in the last week of September, 1848; this 
transaction Mr. Reeve, the curator of the Norwich Museum, 
perfectly recollects, and he informs me that the bird was set up by 
Mr. Gurney’s birdstuffer, Knights. The occurrence is recorded 
under the heading of “Pectoral Sandpiper (Tringa pedoralis) ” in 
‘The Zoologist,’ 1849, p. 2392, the communication being dated 
“Feb. 2, 1849.” Subsequently the same man brought to 
Mr. Gurney two freshly killed specimens of the Red-winged 
Starling, which, upon inquiry, proved to be of very doubtful 
origin ; and Mr. Gurney was fully convinced that an attempt was 
being made to deceive him. He therefore, finding the man to be 
