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SCHINZ’S SANDPIPEK. 
Bonaparte’s Sandpiper. 
Tringa ScJdnzii, Bonap. 
„ Bompartd, Scldegel,* 
Is beiieved^ on circumstantial evidence, to have been once pro- 
cured. 
The following notice was published by me in the ‘ Annals of Natural 
History, for 1846 :f — “ There is a specimen of T. ScJiinzii in the Belfast 
Museum, respecting which positive information cannot now be ob- 
tained; but it is supposed to have been shot in the bay here, in 
conseqnence of having been preserved in a manner peculiar to a 
taxidermist who set up a fresh ‘ sandpiper ’ (as it is called in his book) 
for the collection on the 15th of April, 1836. AU circumstances con- 
sidered, that sandpiper is believed to have been the one in question : — ■ 
no Tringa was ‘ mounted ’ by the same preserver from dried skins. 
I have compared the specimen with the American one described and 
figured by Mr. Yarrell, and found identity in the species. The bird 
under consideration is noticed in the second edition of that author’s 
work, vol. iii. p. 74. 
“ Only one of these birds, recorded by Mr. Eyton as killed in Shrop- 
shire, has been obtained in Great Britain. | Its occurrence on the 
continent of Europe is not noticed in the latest works that 1 have seen 
(Temminck, Part IV. ; Keyserling and Blasius ; Schlegel). North 
America is its native country.” 
* This name is given to the species on account of Brehm having bestowed that 
of T. Schinsii on a different Tringa. 
t Vol. xviii. p. 311. 
1 Subsequently, two are said to have been procm’ed in the middle of October 
1846, within a few miles of Penzance. — Mr. E. H. Rodd in ‘Zoologist,’ vol. iv, 
p. 1554. 
