155 Mr. H. Seebohm on the Ornithology of Siberia. 
probably winter in so southern a station as Formosa; and 
after what Capt. Legge tells me of similar occurrences in 
Ceylon, I can imagine that barren birds in imperfect breeding- 
plumage may not unfrequently be found during summer in 
their winter quarters ; but I scarcely think it possible that C. 
fulvus breeds south of the Arctic circle, at least three thousand 
miles further north than Formosa. If any of these Formosan 
eggs are those of 4. geoffroii, it is evidence, as far as it goes, 
that this bird is a Eudromias, and not an Aigialitis; for they 
are almost miniatures of the eggs of the Dotterel, Z.morinellus. 
EUDROMIAS MORINELLUS (Linn.). 
Small parties of Dotterel appeared from the 9th of June 
for about a week at the Koo-ray’-i-ka. I did not meet with 
this species again until the 25th of July, on my return 
journey, when, in lat. 71°, I shot a male and picked up a 
young bird in half down and half feathers. 
/EGIALITIS HIATICULA (Linn.). 
The Ringed Plover arrived on the 8th of June at our 
winter quarters, and was common as far north as I went 
(lat. 713°). 
PHALAROPUS HYPERBOREUS (Linn.). 
The Red-necked Phalarope arrived at the Koo-ray’-i-ka on 
the 15th of June, and was abundant as far north as I went. 
GALLINAGO STENURA (Kuhl). 
The first Wader which arrived at our winter quarters on 
the Arctic circle was the Pin-tailed Snipe. We shot a couple 
on the fifth of June, three days after the ice began to break 
up on the great river. Three days later they were exceed- 
ingly common on the oases of bare grass which the sun had 
been able to make in a few favourable situations in the midst 
of the otherwise universal desert of melting snow. I could 
easily have shot a score a day if I had had cartridges to spare. 
They used to come wheeling round, uttering a loud and rather 
shrill cry (some idea of which may be gathered by the sound 
of the word peezh, long drawn out) ; then they used to drop 
down with a great whirr of wings, and with tail outspread— 
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