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probably winter in so southern a station as Formosa ; and 

 after what Capt. Legge tells me of similar occurrences in 

 Ceylon^ I can imagine that barren birds in imperfect breeding- 

 plumage may not unfrequently be found during summer in 

 their winter quarters ; but I scarcely think it possible that C. 

 fulvus breeds south of the Arctic circle, at least three thousand 

 miles further north than Formosa. If any of these Formosan 

 eggs are those of ^. geojfroii, it is evidence, as far as it goes, 

 that this bird is a Eudromias, and not an ^gialitis ; for they 

 are almost miniatures of the eggs of the T)oitev&\, E.morinellus. 



EuDROMiAs MORiNELLUs (Linn.). 



Small parties of Dotterel appeared from the 9th of June 

 for about a week at the Koo-ray'-i-ka. I did not meet with 

 this species again until the 25th of July, on my return 

 journey, when, in lat. 71°, I shot a male and picked up a 

 young bird in half down and half feathers. 



-^GIALITIS HIATICULA (LiuU.) . 



The Ringed Plover arrived on the 8th of June at our 

 winter quarters, and was common as far north as I went 

 (lat. 7H°). 



Phalaropus hyperboreus (Linn.). 



The Red-necked Phalarope arrived at the Koo-ray'-i-ka on 

 the 15th of June, and was abundant as far north as I went. 



Gallinago stenura (Kuhl). 



The first Wader which arrived at our winter quarters on 

 the Arctic circle was the Pin-tailed Snipe. We shot a couple 

 on the fifth of June, three days after the ice began to break 

 up on the great river. Three days later they were exceed- 

 ingly common on the oases of bare grass which the sun had 

 been able to make in a few favourable situations in the midst 

 of the otherwise universal desert of melting snow. I could 

 easily have shot a score a day if I had had cartridges to spare. 

 They used to come wheeling round, uttering a loud and rather 

 shrill cry (some idea of which may be gathered by the sound 

 of the word peezh, long drawn out) ; then they used to drop 

 down with a great whirr of wings, and with tail outspread — 



