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Bay, on the Queensland coast, whence it spreads southwards 

 down to Victoria, where I have myself shot it in the summer 

 months. Westwards from Victoria it is found in South 

 Australia and West Australia, ranging far north into the 

 interior. 



'^rhe members of this genus are not migratory to any great 

 extent, the near ally of our bird, the Rynclicea of Asia and 

 Africa, being resident in the districts and localities it affects. 

 It is probable, therefore, that the Australian Rynchcea is 

 merely a local migrant, moving northwards in the winter 

 season. If a migration to the far north took place the 

 species would have ere this been recorded from the north 

 coast, — a district, moreover, in which one would expect to find 

 it resident, the genus being decidedly a tropical one. 



The Australian Painted Snipe has not yet been observed in 

 Tasmania. 



2. GaLLINAGO AUSTRALIS. 



(Australian Snipe). 



Scolopax australis, Latham, Ind. Orn. SuppL, p. 61, (1790) ; 

 Seebohm, Ibis, 1886, p. 133 ; Ramsay, List Austr. B., p. 20, 

 (1880). 



Although the Snipe on jmssage to its " winter " quarters 

 in Australia passes over much latitude, its path is very re- 

 stricted, as it does not touch ihe China coast on its flight from 

 Japan to the north of Australia. Neither does it diverge 

 into Polynesia nor wander eastwards from our coasts to New 

 Zealand, which testifies to the narrowness of its migratory 

 path. It breeds in both islands of Japan, where Swinhoe 

 records it as being found at Hakodadi from June till August. 

 Blakiston obtained it in Fujisan in June and July, and speaks 

 of it as being abundant in Yezo, where the Japanese name 

 for it is " Yama-shija." It passes over the Philippine group 

 in migration, as it has recently been obtained on the island of 

 Palawan, and I observe that Mr. Sharpe in his list of the 

 birds of that island (Ibis, 1 888), gives the species a Bornean 

 and Philippine habitat, although I have not seen it recorded 

 from Borneo. On arrival in Australia in September and 

 October it apparently diverts in limited numbers only to the 

 westward, as Dr. Ramsay records it from Derby (Kimberley 

 district), but not from anyAvhere on the north coast proper. 

 The great stream of migration takes place down the eastern 

 side of the continent, whence the bird passes into the interior 

 and through Riverina to Victoria, and thence westward to 



