LIMlCOLiE. 



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The Pacific race of tlie Dunlin passes in some numbers along the 

 Japanese coasts in spring and autumn on migration. I have six 

 examples procured by Mr. Snow on the Kuriles (Blakiston and 

 Fryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. Ill), where it probably breeds. 

 Dr. Henderson obtained it in Yezzo in October 1857 (Cassin, Proc. 

 Acad, Nat. Sc. Philad. 1858, p. 196), and there are several examples 

 in the Swinhoe collection from Hakodadi (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1875, 

 p. 455). There are eleven examples in the Pryer collection from 

 Yokohama, where a few probably remain during winter. j\lr. Ringer 

 has procured it at Nagasaki, where it was also obtained by the 

 Siebold Expedition (Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, 

 p. 108). 



The Dunlin is a circumpolar species, and visits the British Islands 

 in great numbers, but European examples are, on an average, slightly 

 smaller than those from Asia and America. 



338. TRINGA MARITIMA. 



(PUHPLE SANDPIPER.) 



Tringa maritima, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. G78 (1788). 



The Purple Sandpiper has a nearly black rump and upper tail- 

 coverts j but the seventh, eighth, and ninth secondaries are nearly all 

 ■white. 



Trinya maritima. 



Figures 



Dresser, Birds of Europe, viii. pi. 554. 

 The Purple Sandpiper is a rare winter visitor to the Kurile Islands, 



