330 Capt. Blakiston on the Ornithology of Northern Japan. 



versicolor and P. scemmeringii as having been seen in the hands 

 of Japanese. 



Charadrius mongolicus, Pallas. 



A female specimen of the Eastern Golden Plover was shot in 

 September ; the bird was in flocks, and not uncommon about 

 Hakodadi in autumn. 



iEaiALlTES CANTIANUS (Lath.). 



The specimen, obtained in August, does not seem to diflfer 

 from the Kentish Plover of England. Hakodadi I should con- 

 sider a veiy favourable place for the collection of water-birds 

 and waders, and I am only sorry that my time of departure from 

 that place was at a season when a few days' longer stay would 

 have allowed me to do very much more. 



Tringa crassirostris, Temm. & Schl. F. J. p. 107, pi. Ixiv. 

 A specimen agrees well with the figure in the ' Fauna Japo- 

 nica,' but is certainly very like the Knot of Europe. 



Tringa alpina, Linn. 



Specimens, in two stages of plumage, seem to mark this 

 Northern Japanese bird as the Dunlin of Europe. It was 

 common in flocks on the sea-beach in October. 



Tringa temminckii, Leisler. 



Two specimens of Temminck's Stint were shot in August : 

 one was preserved ; it is a little longer than the measurement 

 given in Yarrell. 



ToTANus ocHROPUS (Liuu.) : F. J. p. 110. 



A female specimen, shot in September, seems identical with 

 the Green Sandpiper of Europe ; besides which I observed a 

 Totanus very like T. melanoleucus of North America; and Mr. 

 Maximovitch includes the common Sandpiper {T. hypoleucus) 

 of Europe in his collection ; while T. brevipes (Vieill.), called 

 T. pulverulentus in the ' Fauna Japonica,' was collected at Hako- 

 dadi by Commodore Perry's Expedition. The Tahitian Curlew 

 {Numenius tahitiensis), coming between N. major and N. minor 

 of the ' Fauna Japonica,' was obtained by the same expedition, 

 for the first time, in Ja])au : a figure of this bird is given by 

 Mr. Cassin in the natural-histor)/ volume of the voyage. I also 



