SCOLOPACID^.] 



' In collection of H. Massey, Esq. 



SPOTTED REDSHANK. 



TOTANUS FUSCUS (Linn^us). 



Explanation of Plate. 



Figure ]. Tornea Lappmark, June 11, 1891. 

 „ 2. Ditto. June 1, 1893. 



„ 3. Ditto. June 8, 1891. 



„ 4. Ditto. June 12, 1892. 



„ 5. Lapland, June 11, 1886. 



„ 6. Kittila, Finland, June 3, 1888. 

 „ 7. Ditto. 



„ 8. Lapland, June 13, 1881. 



„ 9. Kittila, Finland, June 8, 1888. In collection of Dr. R. Williams. 



„ 10. Lapland, June 12, 1885. In collection of H. Massey, Esq. 



„ 11. Lapland, June 19, 1891. In collection of Dr. R, Williams. 



„ 12. Ditto. Ditto. 



The Spotted Redshank is an irregular spring and autumn migrant to the 

 British Islands. 



Me. Howard Saunders writes as follows, respecting the geographical distribution 

 of this species * : — " In summer this species inhabits the northern portions of 

 Scandinavia and Russia ; the birds which intend to nest there arriving in May, 

 though migrants have been noticed passing northwards over Heligoland as late as 

 June 17th. It crosses the Continent by several routes, its winter quarters 

 commencing in the basin of the Mediterranean and extending to Cape Colony. 

 In Asiatic Siberia it is somewhat irregularly distributed, but Dr. von Middendorff 

 found it breeding on the Boganida, while eastward it ranges to Kamschatka ; 

 and during the cold season it visits Japan, China, Burma, India, &c." 



Mr. H. E. Dresser writes f: — "I am indebted to Professor Newton for the 

 loan of a letter, addressed to Mr. Hewitson, under date 17th October, 1854, by 

 Mr. WoUey, Avho, without taking any credit to himself for being, as he certainly 



* ' Manual of British Birds,' p. 604. 



t 'History of the Birds of Europe,' vol. viii. pp. 170, 171. 



