Notes from Japan. 165 



The only district I visited in which there was a locality 

 adapted to the requirements of this species was Suzukavva, 

 on the Bay of Suriij^a. Here the Kentish Plover was to be 

 found quite commonly along the great stretch of beach 

 known as Tagono-ura, and I believe it is plentiful in many 

 parts of Japan. Although I devoted the whole morning o£ 

 June 1st in searching for eggs, I did not succeed in finding 

 more than one, and this apparently had only just been laid. 

 It was placed in a shallow " scrape/* round which was a 

 piece of old rope, half buried in the sand. This egg is 

 indistinguishable from European examples. 



67. Heteractitis brevipes (V.). Grey-ruraped Sand- 

 piper. 



Tetanus incanns brevipes Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 323. 



Heteractitis brevipes Sharpe, Hand-1. B. i. p. 161. 



On the stony shore of Lake Kawaguchi I saw two birds on 

 May 23rd which I identified as belonging to this species ; 

 these were the only examples observed during my visit to 

 Japan. The birds in question betrayed no signs of nesting, 

 and I believe they were merely wanderers. 



68. Tringoides hypoleucus (Linn.). Common Sand- 

 piper. 



Totanus hypoleucus Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 326. 

 Tringoides hypoleucus Sharpe, Hand-1. B. i. p. 161. 

 The Common Sandpiper is found on the banks of many 

 of the mountain-streams, and is by no means rare. 



69. Gallinago AUSTRALis (Lath.). Australian Snipe. 

 Scohpax australis Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 342 ; Ingram, 



Bull. B.O. C. vol. xxi. p. 18. 



Jap. : Ojishigi. 



(Egg, PI. IV. fig. 4.) 



This Snipe was tolerably plentiful on the open grassy 

 slopes of Fujiyama, where I was fortunately able to observe 

 its breeding-habits. In such localities the birds^ presence 

 could not very well be overlooked, owing to the very remark- 

 able sounds produced by them during their aerial evolutions, 

 which in some respects were analogous to those indulged in 



