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Siberia. It is there I have collected eggs now in 

 the Tring Museum. 



The Marshtringa and the Greenshank birds well- 

 known to sportsmen, go to the limit of migration, 

 the Arctic shores; and to the wonder of us all in 

 Southern Tasmania return in the yellow-haired 

 September. 



MIGRATION FLIGHTS 



Normal and Abnormal. 

 (Plate 2, Figs. 61, 57) 



Most of the birds of the order Charadriiformes, 

 or Limicolese, which means dwellers of the mud, 

 are shore birds. They are mostly migratory and 

 wing their way from summer to summer never 

 knowing a winter. 



On entering Siberia in April they may, and prob- 

 ably do, encounter a blizzard of the most terrifying 

 nature. On return in September they meet the 

 sixty miles an hour wind and fly high. From this 

 time on the flocks are ready for the quiet of a 

 secluded beach. 



Map 64, A, is the parting ground of immigrating 

 flocks of waders. Some go on to New Zealand 

 while most are making for the eastern shore line 

 of Australia a few of whom will continue to the 

 southern land shelf of Tasmania. 



The North Cape of New Zealand in March is 

 one of the most fascinating parts of the world, 



