324 LIMlCOLiE. 



the back of the tarsus is very imperfectly scutellated. The American 

 Wandering Tattler must therefore be regarded as a rare wanderer on 

 migration to the Boniu Islands (Secbohm, Ibis^ 1890, }). 104). 



326. TOTANUS GLAREOLA. 

 (WOOD-SANDPlPEii.) 



Trxnya glareola, Linneiis, Syst. Nat. i. p. 149 (1758) ; Gmelin, Sjst. Nat. i. 

 p. 677 (1788). 



The Wood-Sandpiper is a small bird (wing from carpal joint about 

 5 inches) ; the lower back is nearly the same colour as the mantle ; 

 and the predominant colour of the upper tail-covcrts, axillarics^ and 

 under wing-coverts is white. 



Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, viii. pi. 565. 



■^-c' 



Tutanus t/lareula. 



The Wood-Sandpiper passes along the Japanese coasts both on 

 spring and on autumn migration. It is recorded from the Kurile 

 Islands (Blakistou and Prycr, Trans. As. Soo. Japan, 1882, p. 110), 

 and 1 have an example collected at Ilakodadi on the 21th of August 

 by Mr, Henson, and a second from the same locality collected by 

 Mr. Snow in September. There is also an example in the Swinhoe 

 collection procured by Captain Blakiston in May at Ilakodadi (Swin- 

 hoe, Ibis, 1874, p. 163), and two in the Prycr collection from Yoko- 

 hama. Mr. Ringer has procured it at Nagasaki, where the examples 



