32 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 5. N:0 9. 



Triiigoides liypoleucus Linn^us). 



Kiran $ (n:o 104) 275 1908. 



This specimen has the same dimensions as a specimen 

 from Tian Shan. 



Totaiius stagnatilis Bechstein. 



t Kiran $ (n:o 93) ^'Iö 1908. 



Totanus totanus (Linn^us). 



Kiran 0^ (n:o 75) ^V^ 1908. 



This specimen does not fully agree with Swedish speci- 

 mens as it is more richly coloured above with a distinct shade 

 of fawn on the feathers of the head and the back. This shade 

 is less visible on the wings and chiefly conspicuous on some of 

 the tertials. On the other hand it is somewhat darker above 

 than specimens from Tian Shan and riiuch more spotted below. 

 The birds from Tian Shan which have been regarded as well by 

 ScHALOW^ as by the present author^ to belong to Totanus 

 totanus eurhinus Oberholser are larger than the typical race. 

 The wing of this specimen is 150 mm. Swedish specimens can 

 be found as well with larger as with smaller wings. • This 

 specimen is thus smaller than T. t. eurhinus and for this reason 

 and the discrepancy with regard to the colouration it cannot 

 be counted to this subspecies. It is possible that it represents 

 a more eastern race, but one specimen is not sufficient to 

 decide this question and the information in the literature 

 about Redshanks from Eastern Asia are rather scanty. There 

 is, however, a note in Taczanowskis »Faune Ornithologique 

 de la Siberie Orientale» (p. 868) which speaks f or the possibi- 

 lity of such an assumption. This reads as follows: »Le må^.e 

 adulte du lac Khanka, tué le 24 juin, a tout le fond des parties 

 supérieures du corps beaucoup plus foncé que dans tous les 

 exemplaires européens que nous avons vus, a taches roussåtres 

 et les stries noires beaucoup moins prononcées; les stries noires 

 du dessous beaucoup plus denses que d'ordinaire, tout le mi- 

 lieu du ventre est strié. » The length of the wing of the spe- 

 cimen thus described is 153 mm. and it agrees consequently 



^ Journ. f. Ornith. 1908 p. 86. 



2 Ark. f. Zoologi Bd 2 N:o 9 Stockholm 1905 p. 12. 



