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Stanowoi Mountains in Eastern Sibei'ia, and passes south 

 over Central Asia in the month of August, following like- 

 wise the coasts of Ciiina and ranging into Japan an*d the 

 Kurile Islands. It continues its migration from China 

 through Formosa, Borneo, Celeljes, and other Malayan 

 islands to Australi;i. More westerly streams of migration 

 set in through Central Asia and Turkestan towards India, 

 throughout which enijiire and tiie adjoining islands it is 

 common in the cool season. In Ceylon I found that many 

 individuals (non-breeding) remained throughout the year. 

 In Australia Gould obtained specimens from every colony, 

 and remarks that it is generally dispersed over the continent. 

 Dr. Ramsay records it from Port Darwin, Cape York, the 

 Gulf of Carpentaria, and the Queensland coast. Tiience it 

 ranges southwards to Tasmania, where, however, so far as I 

 can ascertain, it has not been recently met with. It wanders 

 into the interior of Australia to some extent, and is to be found 

 on the flooded jilains of some parts of the Murray districts 

 during the spring. It has been met with in Norfolk Island. 

 In western regions of the Old World it is found wintering 

 in Palestine, whither it migrates from Western Siberia. In 

 Europe it breeds in northern latitudes as far south as the 

 Hebrides and parts of Scotland. In Central Europe it is a 

 migrant, passing southward into Africa, and through Egypt 

 down the coast to Cape Colony, visiting likewise the 

 Seychelles and other islands in its course. Concerning its 

 range in America, Mr. Saunders writes: — "Audubon 

 obtained three specimens in Florida on the 28th May, 1882, 

 and examples said to be from Buenos Ayres and ChiH are in 

 the Ley den Museum." 



8. TOTANUS STAGNATILIS. 



(Little Greensluuik). 



Totamis stagnntilis, Bechst. Orn. Tasclienb., ii., p. 292, (1803) ; 

 Gould, B. of Austr., vi., pi. 37, (1848) ; Ramsay, List Austr. B., 

 p. 20, (1888). 



The Little Greenshank, or " Marsh Sandpiper," though 

 distributed over a wide area of the globe, has an uneven dis- 

 tribution, being abundant in many localities, as in India for 

 instance, and absent from others contiguous to them. In 

 Europe it has neithei' a westerly range nor a very northerly 

 one, Lapland being the exception ; and in Asia, unlike other 

 widely-roaming Limicola, it does not appear to go far north, 

 its breeding haunts being confined to Turkestan, and perhaps 



