PECTORAL SANDPIPER.
Tringa pectoralis, Bonap.

le Becasseau Pectorale.

An example of this species of Sandpiper having been killed in our island, we have deemed it necessary to
include a figure of it in the present work. As we have nothing to add to the account published by Mr. Hoy
in Loudon’s Magazine of Natural History, we think it best to quote that gentleman’s words: ‘‘ The occur-
rence of the Pectoral Sandpiper, Zringa pectorals, is noticed and a plate given by Mr. Eyton in his con-
tinuation of Bewick’s Birds. Iam not aware of a more recent instance of its occurrence, and have thought
it might be interesting to some of your readers to know something more respecting the capture of the above-
named specimen. This Zringa seems allied both to 7. variabilis and T. subarquata ; and in the form of the
bill shows some affinity with the Knot (7. canutus). In size it is superior to the Curlew Tringa (7. subar-
quata). It was killed on October 17th, 1830, on the borders of Breydon Broad, an extensive sheet of water
near Yarmouth, rather celebrated for the numerous rare birds which have at different times been observed
and shot on its banks and waters. The person who killed it remarked that it was solitary, and its note was
new to him, which induced him to shoot it. It proved a female on dissection.

«This specimen has been examined by M. Audubon, and identified by him with the Tringa pectorals of
North America,” which is its true habitat.

Crown of the head, all the upper surface, wings and central tail-feathers dark blackish brown, which is
bounded with ferruginous and margined with cinereous ; stripe over the eye, chin, abdomen and under tail-
coverts white; sides of the face, back and sides of the neck, and'the breast pale brown with a stripe of dark
brown down the centre of each feather; bill reddish yellow at the base, black at the tip; feet greenish
yellow.

Our figure is of the natural size.