BART RAM'S SANDPIPER.
DARTRAM'S TATTLER.
Totanus Bariramus,
" Bartramia,
Tringa Bartramia,
RICHARDSON AND SWAINSON.
TEMMLNCK.
WILSON. AUDUBON.
Totanus— Bartramii—Oí' Bartram.
T H I S Sandpiper ranges from Canada through the United States of
America to Mexico, and is common throughout the whole region.
Occasional wanderers have arrived in E u r o p e ; and one was obtained
iu Australia, at Botany Bay, as erroneously so called, being almost
destitute of the remarkable vegetation which abounds in other neighbouring
districts, as erroneously imagined to be the 'locus penitential,'
—the latter word, 1 fear, more to be translated in the sense of penance
than penitence,—of those who 'leave their country for their country's
good.'
I n Europe it has proved an occasional visitor.
I u England, one specimen was shot in a stubble field near Warwick,
in October, 1851, and was discriminated as being a new British Bird,
by Mr. H u g h Reid, of Doncaster. This specimen was added to the
collection of Lord Willoughby de Broke, at Coinpton Verney, near
Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. The next was obtained ,in Cambridgeshire,
on the 12th. of December, 1854, in a p l o u g h e d field between
Cambridge and Newmarket: Frederick Tearle, Esq., of T r i n i t y Hall,
Cambridge, to whom it was sent, has been so kind as to send me an
account of its occurrence. A third is stated in the ' I l l u s t r a t e d London
News,' by a person signing himself N. S. R., to have been shot by
h im at Bigswear, on the banks of the AVye, iu Gloucestershire, on the
19ch. of J a n u a r y , 18-3-3. In Cornwall one, at Mullion, on the 13th. of
November, 1865.
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