90 BuTURLiN, Australian Birds in Siberia. L2nd"oct. 



an Australian adult bird with which I compared it in St. Peters- 

 burg Academical Museum. The skin was received in Moskwa 

 from a Polish exile, who sends many birds to Moskwa Museum 

 from Yakutsk. It was of the same build as the last, and the 

 man was not aware of the exceptional value of it. There cannot 

 be the slightest doubt that the bird was actually obtained near 

 Yakutsk, though it was not labelled — indeed, he did not label 

 any birds he obtained from local Yakutsk shooters. 



Another 10 or 11 species breed not only within our limits, but 

 also, perhaps in slightly different forms, in Australia : Podiccps 

 cristahis (I use mostly names of Dresser's " Manual of Palaearctic 

 Birds "), Sterna sinensis (White-shafted Ternlet), S. anglica (Gull- 

 billed Tern), S. caspia (Caspian Tern), Hydrochelidon hybrida 

 (Marsh Tern), Strepsilas interpres (Turnstone), Ardetta sinensis 

 (Little Yellow Bittern), Plegadis jalcinellus (Glossy Ibis), Ardea 

 cinerea (Grey Heron), Phalacrocorax carbo (Black Cormorant), 

 Piiffiniis teniiirosiris (Short-tailed Petrel or " Mutton-Bird "). 



One species, Diomedea albatrus (Short-tailed Albatross), is only 

 a wanderer near our shores. Other 31 species do breed in our limits, 

 and winter in or accidentally wander to Australia, namely : — 

 Stercorarius pomatorhinus (Pomarine Skua), S. crepidatns 

 (Richardson Skua), Hydrochelidon leucoptera (White-winged Tern), 

 Numenius cyanopus (Curlew), N. variegatus (Whimbrel), N. 

 minuius (Little Whimbrel). Limosa melanuroides (Black-tailed 

 Godwit), L. novcB-zealandicB. (Barred-rumped Godwit), Terekia 

 cinerea (Terek Sandpiper), Heteractitis brevipes (Grey-rumped 

 Sandpiper), Actitis hypoleucus (Common Sandpiper), Totaniis 

 glareola (Wood-Sandpiper), T. stagnatilis (Little Greenshank). 

 T. glottis (Greenshank), Calidris arenaria (Sanderling), Tringa 

 crassirostris (Great Sandpiper), T. canutus (Knot), T. subarquata 

 (Curlew Stint), T. suhmimUa (Middendorff Stint), T. ruficollis 

 (Little Stint), T. acuminata (Sharp-tailed Stint), Mgialitis mon- 

 goliis (Mongolian Sand-Dottrel), Mgialitis geoffroyi (Large Sand- 

 Dottrel), Eitdromias verediis (Oriental Dottrel), Sqnatarola helvetica 

 (Grey Plover), Charadriiis fiilviis (Lesser Golden Plover), Glareola 

 orientalis (Oriental Pratincole), Ciiciilus satitratus (Oriental Cuckoo), 

 Acanthyllis caiidacnta (Spine-tailed Swift), Cypseltis pacificus 

 (White-rumped Swift), Hiriindo gutturalis (Eastern Swallow). 



The geographical distribution of most of these birds within our 

 limits, furnished by me, has been published in Mr. Henry 

 Dresser's work on " Eggs of Western Palaearctic Birds," just 

 finished, and I can give fuller details if required. The following 

 species are not mentioned in Dresser's work : — 



Numenius cyanopus (Curlew). — Breeds in southern parts of 

 Eastern Siberia, as far west as southern Baikal and upper Olekina 

 (tributary of Lena), and as far north as about 56-57° N. on (Lena) 

 Olekina. 



Numenius phcBopits variegatus (Whimbrel). — Breeds in Eastern 

 Siberia as far west as Lena and Baikal. In the north it breeds 

 in large numbers on Kolyma as far as (xj° N.. on the borders of 



