little-known Limicolae. 433 



Moore, in H.M.S. 'Plover/ It was exhibited by Mr. Sclater, 

 on behalf of the owner, Mr. John Barrow, F.R.S., at one of 

 the Zoological Society^s Meetings in 1859; and Mr. Barrow 

 has recently presented it, with the remainder of his collection, 

 to the New Museum at Oxford, where it may now be seen. 

 I am not aware of the existence of any other example in this 

 stage of plumage. In the case of so rare a species a list 

 of the specimens which are at present known to exist will, 

 doubtless, be interesting to many. I have therefore been at 

 some pains to collect the following information : — 



1. Ihe type-specimen of Linnseus, locality unknown, but said 

 (no doubt erroneously) to have been from Surinam, was in the 

 Museum at Upsala in 1860 {cf. Journ. f. Orn. 1860, p. 299). 



2. One from Edmonstone^s Island, Saugur Sand, presented 

 by Mr. Newcombe to the Museum of the Asiatic Society at 

 Calcutta in 1836 (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. v. p. 127). 



3. One met with in Arracan by Capt. Lloyd in 1836 (Asiatic 

 Researches, xix. p. 71). 



4. One obtained in the Calcutta Bazaar 1840 (Ann. & Mag. 

 N. H.xiii. 1844, p. 178). 



5. One from Saugur Island, mouth of the Ganges, in the 

 Derby Museum at Liverpool. Purchased by the late Earl 

 Derby from Mr. Leadbeater, about the year 1840 (Rev. Zool. 

 1842, p. 6). 



6. 7. Two procured in 1846, at Amherst, in Tenasserim, by 

 Mr. E. O'Ryley (Cat. Birds Mus. As. Soc. Calcutta, p. 270). 



8-11, Three specimens in spirits, and one skin, sent by Mr. 

 J. E. Bruce from Chittagong 1856 (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxv. 

 p. 445). 



12-23. Twelve killed at two shots (!) by Mr. Chapman in 

 Chittagong (Journ. f. Orn. 1859, pp. 326, 327). 



24. One in summer plumage from Behring's Straits, by the 

 expedition under Capt. Moore in H.M.S. 'Plover^ (Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1859, p. 201). Now in the New Museum at Oxford. 



No specimen of this bird is to be found either in the British 

 Museum or in the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes at Paris. 

 Those who have had the opportunity of observing the habits of 

 the Spoon-billed Sandpiper assert that it frequents the mud-flats 



