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Tbe Greeushiink occurs regulaily on Bering Island during the spring 

 migration, but does not breed there as far as I know of. 



I also found them rather numerous on the delta of Avatscha River, 

 Kamtschatka, in the latter part of May, 1883. 



48. Totanus ater (Sander). 



1766.— Scolopax fusca Lin., Syst. Nat., 13 ed., I, p. 243 {nee 1758, quae Guara 

 alha.).—Umosaf. Pall., Zoogr. Ross. As., II, p. liil.— Totanus f. Middend., 

 Sibir. Reis., II, 2 (p. 214) (1853).— Swinh., Ibis, 1862, p. 254.— Id., ibid., 1863, 

 p. 97.— Jrf., ibid., 1875, p. 453,— M, P. Z. S., 1862, p. 319.— W., ibid., 1863, p. 

 311.— Jd., ibid., 1870, p. 427.— 7rf., ibid., 1871, p. 406.— Radde, Reis. Sutl. Ost- 

 Sibir., II (p. 327) (18o3).— Dybow. & Parvkx, J. f. Orn., 1868, p. 337.— 

 Przew., Putescb. Ussur. (ii. 160) (1870).— Taczan., J. f. Orn., 1873, p. 

 102,— M, ibid., 1874, p. %\'o.—Id., Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, p, 250.— /<?,, 

 ibid., 1883, p. 339. -W., Orn. Faun. Vost. Sibir,, p. 54 (1877).— Blakist, «fc 

 Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 220.— lid., Tr. As. Soc. Jap,, VIII, 1880, p, 193.— lid., 

 ibid., X, 1882, p, 110.— Blakist., Aiuenil. List B.Jap., p, 11 (1884),— Bog- 

 dan., Consp, Av. Ross., I, p. 96 (1884). 



1779,- Scolopax aira Sander, Naturforscb., XIII (p. 193). 



In the tenth edition Liunajus described the young of Guara alba as 

 Scolopax fu.sca., basing it upon Catesby's "Nat. Hist. Carolin., plate 

 83." In the twelfth edition he applied the identical name, Scolopax 

 fusca, to quite a different bird, the European Dusky Sandpiper, usually 

 known as Totomis fuscus. It therefore has become necessary, accord- 

 ing to the A. O^. U. rules, to adopt the name next in date, which, fortu- 

 nately, is a very appropriate one. 



List of specimens obtained. 



During my absence from Bering Island in the spring of 1883 three 

 specimens in summer jdumage were shot and prepared. The species 

 may be regarded as a rather rare visitor, as it was not known to any 

 of the residents on the islands. Like so many other rare migrati;!g 

 visitors to Bering Island in the spring of 1883, its appearance probably 

 was due to the abnormal amount of snow in Kamtschatka at that time. 

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