Totanus solitarius (Wilson).
SOLITARY SANDPIPER.
TOTANUS SOLITARIUS (Wilson).
Tringa solitaria, Wilson, Amer. Orn. vii. p. 53, pi. 58. fig. 3
(1813).
Totanus solitarius, Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 468, Pref. p. x.
I find three records only of the occurrence of this
American species in Great Britain; the first, recorded
by Gray in the cIbis’ for 1870, is stated to have been
shot some years ago somewhere on the banks of the
Clyde, in the higher grounds of Lanarkshire; the second
British specimen was killed in Scilly on September 21st,
1882, and is now in the possession of Mr. Dorrien
Smith, to whom I am indebted for the loan of the bird
for this work; a third is recorded by Mr. Thomas Cornish
(‘Zoologist,’ 1885, p. 113) to have been killed in
a marsh near Marazion, and identified by the late
W. H. Yingoe, of Penzance, into whose possession it
passed; Mr. Cornish gives no precise date for this
occurrence, but as he mentions loc. supra cit. that it was
in Yingoe’s hands on January 26th, 1885, we may
presume that it was killed shortly before that date.