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black feathers among the grey ones on the back showing 

 that the bird was changing into its summer hvery at the com- 

 mencement of the AustraUan spring ; for the date on the label 

 of the specimen now before me clearly written by Strange is, 

 " Female, Sept. 2, 1861 ; irides dark hazel." It will scarcely 

 be necessary for me to give a description of this well-known 

 species, as it may be found in every European work ; I would, 

 however, direct attention to the fact of its having been found 

 on the east coast of Australia, that some one may record 

 hereafter if its visits are regular. 



Sp. 526. TRINGA TENUIROSTRIS. 



Great Sandpipee. 



Totanus tenuirostris, Horsf. Linn. Trans., vol. xiii. p. 192. 

 Schosniclus magnus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, 1848, p. 39. 

 Tringa crassirostris, Temm. et Schleg. Faun. Jap,, p. 107. pi. Ixiv. 



Schoeniclus magnus, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. vi. pi. 33. 



This is one of the birds that I did not meet with during my 

 sojourn in Australia ; there are, however, many specimens in 

 this country ; one in the British Museum was obtained on the 

 north coast of Australia ; and another, procured at Swan 

 River, is in the possession of Lord Braybrooke, a nobleman 

 much attached to natural history. It is one of the most sin- 

 gular species of the Trin^xE, being in size fully ecpial to the 

 Ruff. 



Besides being found in Australia, this bird also inhabits 

 China and Japan, and beautiful figures of it in its various 

 stages of plumage will be found in the ' Fauna Japonica ' as 

 above quoted. 



Crown of the head and the neck brownish grey, each feather 

 with a stripe of brown down the centre ; back and wings 

 brown, broadly margined with brownish grey ; primaries 

 blackish brown ; rump white, each feather tipped with brown ; 

 tail brownish grey ; feathers of the breast dark brown, with a 



