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HISTORY OF 
PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 
Tringa Pectoralis. Bonaparte. 
Mr. Jenyns, in his useful work, just published, “ The 
Manual of British Vertebrate Animals,’’ mentions, on the au- 
thority of Mr. Yarrell, that a specimen of this bird has occurred 
at Yarmouth, is now in the possession of Mr. Hoy, of that place, 
and has been identified by Mr. Audubon, with the T. Pectoralis, 
of America. 
The above cut is taken from a specimen that we received 
from that Continent, and which appears to be in the summer 
or young state of plumage, or just beginning the autumn 
moult. We shall be very minute in our account, as we con- 
sider it not impossible that there may have been a mistake 
in the bird, the descriptions being very meagre; the measure- 
ments, however, agree tolerably well, except in length, our 
specimen being about an inch shorter than T. Pectoralis is 
stated to be, by Nuttall, in his “ Ornithology of the United 
