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PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 
Since the publication of Mr. Selby’s work on 
British Ornithology, three species of Tringa have 
been discovered to he occasional visitants on our 
coasts, and although they are of very rare occur- 
rence, our volume would he incomplete without 
some notice of them, however short, and though it 
is not derived from observation. 
Pectoral Sandpiper, T. pectoralis, Bonap . — 
Belinda pectoralis , Bonap. Comp. List. — Becasseau 
pectoral , Temm . — Pectoral Sandpiper, Jenyns, Yar- 
rell, and modern British authors — Two specimens 
of this species have been killed in Britain, one of 
them on Brydon Board in Norfolk. One or two other 
birds have been seen in the same country, hut none 
have yet occurred in Scotland or Ireland. It is an 
American species, and seems to have been first 
detected as such by Mr. Say, and afterwards to have 
received a regular place in the histories of American 
ornithology. Mr. Audubon met with them “ in the 
State of Maine, feeding on the rocky bars of the rivers 
at low water ;* and states that Nuttall found them 
in abundance in Massachusetts Bay, where they are 
migratory, and whence they are brought in numbers 
to the market in Boston, during their temporary 
abode. They extend also to the Southern Con- 
tinent, are found in the Brazils;* and we have 
received the bird from the island of Tobago. We 
are not aware of any other extra European range. 
* Bonapart auct. Yarrell. 
