AUSTRALIAN LIMICOL^. 943 



Southern and Western Australia, in most of wliich colonies 

 it is common. In Tasmania it has always been numerous in 

 certain localities, although since many of its haunts have been 

 drained it has become less plentiful during the last ten or 

 fifteen years. Careful observations on its arrival in and 

 departure from this island, which is the southernmost limit of 

 its range, would be highly interesting. Individuals arrive 

 here from the north as early as August, but the bulk of our 

 visitants only reach our shores towards the latter end of 

 September. Immature non-migratory birds occasionally 

 have been observed in the winter months in Tasmania, 

 but this is common to many of the highly migratory 

 LimicolcB. 



The Snipe is perhaps nowhere more abundant than in the 

 marshy districts bordering the Murray on its course through 

 Riverina. 



3. LlJIOSA NOV^-ZEALANDIiE. 

 (Barred-rumped Godwit). 



Limosa nova- zealandlce^ Gray, Voy. Erebus ?i\\{\ Terror^\i. 13, Birdf^, 

 (1884); Buller, Birdts of N.Z., vol. ii,, 2nd ed., p. 40, (1888). 



Limosa uropygialis^ Gray, P.Z.S., p. 38, (1848) ; Ramsay, List 

 Austr. B., p. 20, (1888). 



This Godwit is an eastern race of the European and 

 Eastern-Asian Bar-tailed Godwit, L. lapponica, Linn. Ac- 

 cording to Von Middendorti' it breeds in Amoorland and 

 Eastern Siberia, in which regions this naturalist found it 

 abundant from June till August. It however wanders further 

 north than this, being found in the summer in Kamtskhatka 

 and on the shores of the sea of Okhotsk, and has occurred 

 on Behring Island, while individuals have wandered as far 

 as Alaska, where the eggs were taken in 1 868. It is Ibund 

 in the north island of Japan, and also in the south, being 

 recorded by Blakiston from Yezo and Tokio. On passage 

 it visits the China coast and the island of Formosa, where it 

 has been obtained in April and September. During migra- 

 tion it is also found in Java, Borneo, Timor, Celebes, and 

 other islands of the Archipelago ; and in the southern 

 summer it inhabits New Caledonia, the Solomons, New 

 Britain, New Hebrides, the Loyalty Islands, and Fiji. It is 

 dispersed round the Australian coasts, being recorded by Dr. 

 Ramsay from Port Darwin round the north coast to Queens- 

 land, and thence southwarfl to Victoria and South Australia, 

 its range terminating in West Australia, northward of which 

 it has probably up to this time been overlooked. In Tas- 



