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coast of China, where Swiiihoe noticed it as abundant in the 

 month of August. It is likewise found at that time of the 

 year on both islands of Japan, where it probably breeds. On 

 passage to and from its summer haunts it occurs in the 

 Philippines, where it has been shot in the month of May in 

 nuptial plumage, and also in other islands of the Malay 

 Arehipelago, in some of which it may possibly breed, as it 

 has been shot in Celebes in July. In regard to our own 

 region, it extends round the west coast of Australia, having 

 been observed at Derby on the north-west, as well as in other 

 northern, eastern, and southern districts. Dr. Ramsay like- 

 wise records it from the interior. To Tasmania it is an 

 occasional visitant, specimens being existent in the Hobart 

 Museum. 



-Returning to its distribution in Asia, it does not seem to 

 extend inland to the west, except as a very rare straggler, to 

 the Indian region, where in August, 1880, Major Biddulph 

 shot a male in adult plumage at Gilgit, which lies at the 

 base of the Hindookoosh Mountains. This is one of the 

 most remarkable instances on record of a migratory bird 

 straying from its usual path, as the locality in question would 

 seem to have been reached by it in the course of long- 

 wandering up the rivers of China to the region north of the 

 Himalayas, and thence across the great range to the upper 

 waters of the Indus. 



The Marsh Stint appears to have no Polynesian range, 

 nor is it found in New Caledonia or New Zealand. 



12. TrINGA CRASSIROSTRIS. 



(Great Stint). 



Tringa crassirostris, Schlegel, Fauna, Jap. Aves, ]). 107, pi., 64, 



(1846), Ramsay, List Austr. B., p. 20, (1888). 

 Shceniclus magnus^ Gould, P.Z.S., 1848, p. 39. 

 Tringa tenuirostris (Horsf.), Gould, Handb. B. of Austr., ii., p. 



260, (1865). 



This Stint, the largest of its genus, may be said to take 

 the place of the Knot in Eastern Asia, and has been styled 

 by some naturalists the " Chinese Knot." It has been traced 

 as far north as the Amoor River and the shores of the sea of 

 Okhotsk, and is also found in the summer in both islands of 

 Japan. From this region it was first described by Schlegel 

 in his " Fauna Japonica," On passage down the Chinese 

 coasts it is tolerably plentiful, and Swiu hoe found it in partial 

 symmer plumage at Shanghai in the month of April, proving 



