LIMICOLtE. 



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Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, vii. pi. 537. 



The Red-necked Plialarope is a winter visitor to the Japanese 

 Islands. I have two examples procured by Mr. Snow on the Kuriles 

 (Bhikistou and Prycr, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 113) ; and there 



3^^. 



Phalaropus hyperboreus. 



is an example from Hakodadi in the Swinhoe collection (Swinhoe, 

 Ibis, 1875, p. 455), whence several examples, the first recorded from 

 Japan, were procured by the Perry Expedition in 1854 (Cassin, Exp, 

 Am. Squad. China Seas and Japan, ii. p. 230). There are four 

 examples in the Pryer collection from Yokohama, and it has been 

 obtained on the Loo-Choo Islands (Stejneger, Proc. United States 

 Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 394). 



The Red-necked Phalarope is a circumpolar bird, breeding in the 

 Arctic Regions of both continents and in Scotland. 



321. TOTANUS FUSCUS. 

 (DUSKY REDSHANK.) 



Scolopax fusca, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 243 (17G6). 



The Dusky Redshank belongs to a small group of partially -web- 

 footed Sandpipers, which have the lower back and rump unstreaked 

 white. It has white secondaries transversely barred with grey. 



Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, viii. pi. 568. fig. 2 (summer 

 plumage), pi. 569. fig. 1 (winter plumage), pi. 567. fig. 2 (young in 

 first plumage) . 



