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Midden iIorfF met with it near the summit of the range. From 

 Kamtschatka it crosses over to South Alaska, but appears not 

 to extend down the west coast of America. It is an abundant 

 winter visitant to India, Ceylon, Burmah, the Malay 

 Peninsula, and thence southwards through the islands of 

 Malayana to Australia, round the whole coast of which 

 continent it has been met with ; in the ulterior, according to 

 Dr. Ramsay, it has not been found, and to Tasmania* it is a 

 rare straggler. It is singular that it has not been met with 

 in New Zealand, but the wide expanse of ocean between 

 New Caledonia and that colony probably militates against its 

 migration thither. 



Turning westward again we find the common sandpiper 

 summering in Japan and China and found on passage in 

 Formosa, the Philippines, the Pelew islands, the Solomons, 

 the Gilbert Group, Fiji, and New Caledonia; and as time 

 goes on it will probably be met with oh the shores of every 

 Polynesian Group which shall be carefully examined. It is 

 spread throughout Europe as a summer visitant, extending to 

 the northern coasts of Russia. It is common in Great Britain, 

 breeding there ; I have taken its eggs myself in the highlands 

 of Wales. It generally leaves England in September, and 

 those birds which quit western Europe must form the migratory 

 stream which passes down the west coast of Africa, taking in 

 the Canary Islands, Maderia, and TenerifFe. In Eastern 

 Africa it is found in Egypt, being a resident there as well as 

 in Abyssinia. Southward it extends to the Transvaal and 

 Cape Colony, and diverts to the Seychelles, Mauritius, and 

 Madagascar, in all of which locahties it is a " southern 

 summer" visitant. Finally, in the New World it has been 

 observed in South Greenland, but does not occur on the east 

 coast of the continent, though found in the extreme north- 

 Avest of it, as above observed. 



10. Bartramia longicauda. 



(Bartram's Sandpiper.) 



Tringa longicauda^ Bechst, Kurze nebersicht aller bekannten Vogel, 



p. 453, (1811). 

 Actititurus bartramius (Wilson), Gould, Haudb. B. Austr., ii., p. 



242, (1863). 

 Bartramia longicauda (Bechst.), Saunders, Yarr, British B. iii., 



p. 440, (1882-4). 

 Actititurus longicauda^ Ramsay, List Austr. B., p. 20, (1888.) 



This fine American Sandpiper, which inhabits the New 

 World from Alaska to Chili, is an extraordinary wanderer 

 * Accideutally omitted from my Liit of Tasmauian Birds. 



