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The breeding-range of the Marsh-Sandpiper extends from the 

 delta of the Rhone, across Europe and Southern Siberia, and it is 

 said to have once occurred in the British Islands (Littleboy, Trans. 

 Hertfordsliire Nat. Hist. Soc. 1888, p. 78). 



325. TOTANUS INCANUS. 

 (WANDERING TATTLER.) 



Scolopax incana, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. Go8 (1788). 



The Wandering Tattler has grey lower back^ rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts, and unbarred dark-grey axillaries. 



Figures : Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, pi. 65. 



The Asiatic race of the Wandering Tattler passes along the shores 

 of the Japanese islands in considerable numbers, both in spring and 

 autumn. I have an example obtained by Mr, Snow on the Kurile 

 Islands (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 109). 

 Mr. Heine, the artist of the Perry Expedition, says that it was 

 frequently seen on the sandy beach of the bay of Hakodadi, where 

 examples were obtained in May 1854 (Cassin, Exp. Am. Squad. 

 China Seas and Japan, ii. p. 229) . There are four examples in the 

 Swinhoe collection from the same locality (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1874, 

 p. 163), and eleven in the Pryer collection from Yokohama. 



Captain Rodgers procured it on the Bonin Islands (Cassin, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1862, p. 321) ; and there are four examples 

 in the Pryer collection from the Loo-Choo Islands (Seebohm, Ibis, 

 1887, p. 180). 



The Asiatic race of the Wandering Tattler breeds in Eastern Siberia 

 and winters in Australia. 



Mr. Hoist sent me an example from Peel Island, in the centre of 

 the Bonin group. All these records appear to refer to the Asiatic 

 race of this species, which may be regarded as subspecifically distinct 

 under the name of Totanus incanus brevipes, which was described in 

 1817 under the name of Totanus brevipes (Vieillot, N. Diet. d^Hist. 

 Nat. vi. p. 410). 



A second example sent by Mr. Hoist from Peel Island appears to 

 belong to the typical form. The whole of the underparts are barred ; 

 the nasal groove extends for two thirds of the length of the bill ; and 



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