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from its usual liabitat, appearing at considerable intervals in 

 parts of Europe, and though avoiding notice on the continent 

 of Asia, actually appeariug rarely in Australia. 



In the summer season it inhabits the Nearctic region for 

 breeding purposes, being well known, writes Mr. Saunders, 

 loc. cit. in Canada and Nova Scotia and " generally dis- 

 tributed during the summer over the northei-n and central 

 portions of the United States to Illinois and Pennsylvania. 

 It is especially abundant on the great plains on the eastern 

 side of the Rocky Mountains, where it is called the ' Prairie 

 Pigeon,' but as yet it is not known to cross that natural 

 barrier, though it has been found so near as the Big Blue 

 River, Utah ; and in the north west it was obtained by Mr. 

 Dall on the Yukon River, Alaska." Its spring migration 

 takes place largely through the western States of America, 

 the birds returning southwards in the month of August, and 

 passing through Mexico and Central America to Colombia 

 and Brazil, and thence onward into Eastern Peru and Chili. 

 It likewise diverges in considerable numbers to Bermuda 

 and the West Indies. The occurrence of seven examples is 

 recorded by Mr. Saunders to have taken place in Great 

 Britain, some in western, and others in north-eastern countries. 

 In the same sporadic manner it has been met with in parts of 

 Europe, viz., Sweden, Holland, Germany, and Italy, as also 

 in Malta ; but in the two latter localities only has it apparently 

 been properly identified. 



In Australia Gould recorded it from INew South Wales 

 on the testimony afforded by an example shot in the snipe 

 season of 1848, near Sydney. Dr. Ramsay, however, notes 

 it from Wide Bay and from the interior, where the late Mr. 

 K. B. Bennett met with it in the Bourke district. The late 

 Count Castelnau, Dr. Ramsay informs me, also procured an 

 example in the Melbourne market. 



11. Tringa acuminata. 



(Marsh Stint). 



Totanus acuminatus, Horsf., Tr. L. Soc, xiii., p. 192, (1821), Java. 

 Limnocinclus acuminatus^ Gould, Handb. B. of Austr., ii., p. 254, 



(1848). 

 Tringa acuminata, Ramsay, List Austr. B., p. 20, (1888). 



This Stint is an Oriental migrant, with normally a narrow 

 migratory path. It was first described from Java by Hors- 

 field, who no doubt procured it while it was on passage to or 

 from the China coast. In summer it is found on the north 



