330 LIMICOL.E. 



has procured it at Nagasaki, where the examples obtained by the 

 Siebold Expedition were probably also procured (Temminek and 

 Schlcgel, Fauna Japoniea, Aves, p. 110). 



The Green Sand])iper breeds in the suljarctic regions of the Old 

 "World, visiting the British Islands as well as Japan on its migrations. 



328. TOTANUS TEREKIUS. 

 (TEREK SANDPIPER.) 



Scolopax terek, Latham, Index Om. ii. p. 724 (1790). 



The Terek Sandpiper has no white on the primaries or rump, a 

 great deal of white on the secondaries, and nothing but white on the 

 axillaries. Its beak is recurved like that of the Greenshank. 



Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, viii. pi. 572. 



The Terek Sand])ipcr is probably a spring and autumn \nsitor on 

 migration to all the Japanese Islands, though it has not yet been 

 recorded from Yezzo. It is occasionally found in the Yokohama 

 market (Scebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 33), whence I have two examples in 

 the Pryer collection, and a third collected by jNIr. Owston. 



The Terek Sandpijicr breeds in the Arctic Regions from Archangel 

 to Kamtschatka, but is not known to have visited the British 

 Islands. 



329. TOTANUS HYPOLEUCUS. 



(com:mon sandpiper.) 



Trin(ja hypoleucos, Linneus, Sj'st. Nat. i. p. 2o0 (1760). 



The Common Sandpiper has white axillaries, large patches of 

 white on most of the primaries and secondaries, but no Avhite on the 

 rump or upper tail-covcrts. 



Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, viii. pi. 563. 



The Common Sandpiper is probably a summer visitor to Yezzo, 

 and a resident in the more southerly Jai)anese Islands. It has l)cen 

 seen on Eturop, the most southerly of the Kurilcs (Blakiston and 

 Prycr, Trans, As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 110), and there are several 

 examples in the Swinhoc collection from Ilakodadi (Swinhoe, Ibis, 



