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6. TOTANUS TNCANUS. 

 (Grey Sandpiper). 



Scolopax incana^ Gmelin, Sys. Nat. 1, p. 658, (1788). 



Gcunbetta pulveriiJentus (Miill.), Gould, Handb. Birds of Aiistr.,ii., 



p. 208, (1865). 

 Totamis incanus^ Ramsay, List Austr. Birds, p. 20, (1888). 



This Sandpiper is a denizen of the coasts of Eastern Asia 

 and Oceanica as far east as the Marquesas Group, where it 

 has been obtained in winter plumage. It occurs in the north 

 of Japan in May, and is common in s])ring and autumn in 

 Yezo, breeding probably in these localities. According to 

 Schlegel it is found on the coasts of the JNorth Pacific. It 

 passes on migration into the Loochoo Islands, the Phihppine 

 Archipelago (being found there" from November to April), the 

 islands of Borneo, Timor, Celebes, and New Guinea. 

 Further eastward it has been procured in New Hanover, New 

 Caledonia, Fiji, and the Navigator and Friendly Islands, and is 

 ])robably found in the southern summer in many of the adjacent 

 groups, but does not extend as far south as New Zealand. 



In Australia Dr. Ramsay records it from Ports Darwin 

 and Essington, the Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, the 

 Queensland coasts, and New South Wales, south of which 

 colony it does not seem to have been observed. Gould, who 

 speaks of it as being abundant at Port Essington, is not 

 precise as to the season of the year it affects that locahty, 

 though he describes the summer plumage from specimens 

 procured there. It is not improbable that these may have 

 been April birds, at which time it has been shot in Leyte 

 (PhiUppines), in breeding dress. There seems as yet to be no 

 record of its occurrence on the west coasts of Australia, but 

 as it has been procured in Timor and the port just named, it 

 will doubtless be some day procured in the Derby District 

 and other places on the yet unexplored coast of that part of 

 the continent. 



7. ToTANUS GLOTTIS. 



(Greenshank). 



Scolopax glottis^ lAxm.^'^ys.'^Q.i. \., p. 245, (1766). 



Glottis g'lottoides (Vg.), Gould, B. of Austr. vi., pi. 36, (1828). 



Totanus canescens (Gmelin), Ramsay, List Austr. B., p. 20, (1888). 



This fine sandpiper is widely distributed over the face of 

 the globe, being found along the coasts of the three con- 

 tinents of the Old World, while in America it is a straggler 

 as far south as Chili. As regards Asia, it migrates from 

 southern latitudes ixh the breeding season as far north as the 



