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the highlands of Yarkand and Southern MongoHa, though it 

 has not been recorded from the latter region. Being, how- 

 ever,tolerably plentiful in parts of Burniah, it must neces- 

 sai-ily migrate thither from some part of Mongolia. 



It is nowhere more abundant than in parts of India and 

 in Ceylon in the cool season, though it is rare in the Nicobars 

 and in Tenasserim, but south of the latter country it becomes 

 scarce, having been obtained only in some of the Malay 

 Islands — Java, Borneo, and New Guinea ; and to Austraha 

 it can only be considered a straggler. It has been met with 

 on the southern coasts of (>hina and in Formosa, but not in 

 the Philippines, nor does it range eastward into Polynesia or 

 New Zealand. It is found in Western Asia, wintering in 

 Palestine. In Europe it is chielly confined to the central 

 portions of the continent and Southern Russia, breeding in 

 the latter country and in Hungary. It is rare in Western 

 Europe, and has not been observed in England. In 

 the islands of the Mediterranean it occurs on passage to 

 Egypt, where it is most numerous on the Lower Nile. It 

 has been obtained both in winter and in summer in the 

 highlands of Abyssinia, and therefore breeds there, as Von 

 Heughlin observed it in breeding plumage. It is hkewise 

 found on the west coast of Africa, and migrates to the 

 south in winter, inhabiting Natal and other provinces. 



As I have observed, it is a rare visitant to Australia in the 

 noi'thern winter. Gould procured it on the Mokai in 1830, 

 and Dr. Ramsay records it from the Wide Bay District 

 (Queensland) and the south coast of New Guinea. 



9. Tringoides hypoleucos. 



(Common Sandpii:)or). 



Tringa hypoleucos, Linn., Sys. Nat. i. p., 2-50, (1766). 

 Actitis hypoleucos^ Gould, Handb. of Austr., ii., p. 263, (1863). 

 Ramsay, List Austr. Birds, p. 20, (1888). 



This interesting sandpiper, known commonly in England 

 as the "Summer Snipe," is, so far as the Old World is concerned, 

 one of the most cosmopolitan species of its family. From 

 the sands of the sea coast and of bays and inlets up to an 

 elevation of 17,000 feet, wherever there are lagoons, lakes, 

 marshes, or broad rivers, this little bird is likely to be met 

 with. Its Asiatic breeding haunts extend from the Himalayas 

 and highlands on the north of this range, through Siberia to 

 the arctic circle, and stretch across the continent from Europe 

 to Kanitschatka, taking in the Stanowoi niountains where 



