PECTOEAL SANDPIPER
TRINGA MACULAT A, Vieill.
Tringa maculata, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. xxxiv.
p. 465 (1819); Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 368; Dresser, viii.
p .ll.
Tringa pectoralis, Macg. ir. p. 190.
This is an American species, of whose occurrence in
our islands from twenty to thirty instances have been
recorded at various seasons of the year; it is very probable
that it may often have passed undistinguished
amongst a “ bunch ” of Dunlins killed by a coast-gunner,
as it has a certain general similarity to that species in
the plumage of autumn and winter; but the present
bird is larger than the Dunlin, and the legs and toes,
which are always nearly black in that species, are said
to be of a yellowish colour in the Pectoral Sandpiper.
This bird is stated to range, according to the season,
from the arctic regions of North America to Patagonia
and Chili.
The specimen figured in the Plate is a young male
killed at Spurn Head on October 2, 1888, and very
kindly sent to me for the purposes of the present publication
by Mr. John Cordeaux.
P E C T O R A L S A N D P IP E R .