516 On the Russian Arctic Expedition of 1900-1903. 



first nest^ containing much incubated eggs, on the 22ud 

 June/5th July, 1901. From the 24th July/Sih Aug. to the 

 8th/21st August flocks of Little Stints, together with 

 Curlew-Sandpipers in immature plumage, were often seen. 

 On the Island of New Siberia he saw no Stints either of 

 the present species or Tringa subminuta. 



Tringa maculata. — An example was shot by Mr. Birulia 

 out of a flock on 12th/25th August, 1900, near a pool on 

 an island in the Bay of Minin, but this Sandpiper was not 

 seen again during the expedition. 



Tringa striata was common and found breeding on the 

 Taimyr Peninsula, while a Sandpiper was seen on one 

 occasion on New Siberia in 1902 which was either of the 

 present species or possibly Tringa couesi. 



P halaropus fulicurius was one of the commonest birds on the 

 coasts of Northern Siberia. It was met with on the passage 

 from the Western Taimyr to the New Siberian Islands, not 

 only on the shores of the mainland and islands, but in the 

 open sea on passage south from some unknown islands in the 

 north. It was first seen in the Bay of Minin on 12th/25th 

 August, 1900, and many flocks composed of young birds 

 only were seen in the Bay of Middendorfl". On the Western 

 Taimyr they were first seen on the 25th May/7th June, 1901, 

 along with other Waders, and they were common near pools 

 and small lakes in the tundra, though evidently they do not 

 breed there. Mr. Birulia saw flocks of young birds on the 

 30th July/13th Aug., and thinks that their breeding-place 

 cannot have been very far distant. On New Siberia the 

 first were seen on the 28th May/lOth June and the last on 

 the 1st/ 14th September. 



Tringa subarquata was first seen on the 24th Aug./6th 

 Sept. in small flocks on the shore of small bays in the Gulf 

 of Middendorfl, but was not at all common. In 1901 at the 

 Sarja roadstead on the Taimyr coast it was the commonest 

 Wader on the tundra. In ray translation of Dr. Walter's 

 notes I gave particulars of its nest and eggs, and in addition 

 to these notes Mr. Birulia says that for the site of their 

 uests they select the southern slopes of the hilly tundra 



