Art. XIX. — A'^otcs on Birds. 

 By A. J. Campbell. 



[Eead 8th November, 1894.] 



(1) The Occurrence of the Saxderlixg (Calidris arenaria) 



IX Australia. 



Professor Alfred Newton has recorded the following note in the 

 "Records of the Australian Museum" (1892): — " Having lately 

 occasion to investigate the range of the Sanderiing (Calidris 

 arenaria), I came across a memorandum made in the year 1860, 

 of my having then seen in the Derby Museum at Liverpool two 

 specimens of the larger race of this species, one in winter dress 

 and the other in incipient spring plumage, both being marked 

 as females, and as having been obtained at Sandy Cove, in New 

 South Wales, 20th April, 1844, by the late John Macgillivray." 



I now record a second occurrence in Australia of this extremely 

 interesting wanderer, but in this instance on the west coast, near 

 the North-west Cape. Mr. Tom Carter kindly forwarded a skin 

 to me with the following memorandum : — " I was out with my 

 gun last week (middle of July, 1894), and after a shot at a party 

 of waders I picked up eight Turnstones, two Little Sandpipers 

 ( Triiiga riificoUis, ?), and two birds as per skin herewith. I take 

 it to be the Sanderiing. You will observe there is no hind toe. 

 The other bird was too much smashed to make a skin." 



The skin received I passed on to Colonel Legge, who is mucii 

 interested in the distribution of our Liinicolce. He replies, 

 " Calidris arenaria in abraded plumage with new winter feathers 

 coming on back and wings." 



(2) The Occurrexce of the Egg op the Pallid Cuckoo 



(Cticulus pallidus) in the nest of the Magpie Lark 

 ( Grallina picata). 



My friend, Master John Summers, of Cheltenham, presented 

 me with a nest taken in the locality on the 24th September, 

 1894, containing a set of five eggs of the Grallina, together with 

 the egg of the Pallid Cuckoo (C. pallidus). This is the first 

 instance I am aware of an egg of this Cuckoo having been found 

 in the nest of a Grallina. 



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