954 ADDENDUM — SECTION D. 



14. Tringa SUBARQUATA. 



(Curlew Stint). 



Scolopax suharquata, Giildenstadt, Nov. Comin., Petrop., xix., p. 

 471, (1775). 



Ancylochilus suharquatus^ (Gmel.), Gould, Hundb. B. ot Austr., 

 ii., p. 256, (1865). 



Tringa suharquata^ (Giild.), hegge^ B. of Ceylon, p. 879, (1880)* ; 

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



This fine Stint is a bird which always maintains its interest 

 for the ornithologist, owing to its nest and eggs still being 

 unknown, a fact rendered all the more curious by the very 

 short space of time which it evidently :spends on its unknown 

 breeding-grounds in the Arctic regions. For a short time in 

 the breeding season the Curlew Sandpiper is found in the 

 Arctic Circle of Siberia, following the larger rivers towards 

 the north as far as lat. 74°, at which point Von Middendoi'f 

 met with it on the Taimyr river, in the Peninsula of that 

 name. As late as the month of May it has been procured 

 while on passage up the coast of China in breeding plumage. 

 It appears to wander north via the shores of the Sea of 

 Okhotsk and the coast of Kamtschatka to Behring Straits, 

 but apparently avoids Japan, as, singularly enough, it has not 

 yet been recorded from that locality. It is found in Formosa 

 while on passage, but has not been met with in the Philijjpines 

 nor in many other of the islands of the Archipelago. It has 

 been obtained at Singapore and in Java and Borneo, halting 

 likewise on the coast of New Guinea while on passage to 

 North Austraha. It is generally dispersed along the shores 

 of this continent, although there are some localities, such as 

 Derby on the north-west, and Rockingham Bay and Port 

 Denison on the east coasts, where it is not recorded from, 

 Mr. Campbell writes me, however, that he met with it in 

 December on the Houtmans Abrolhos islands. In Tasmania 

 it is met with not uncommonly on the north and north-west 

 coasts, where Messrs. Atkinson and Holden have both procured 

 it. Farther east than Tasmania it does not appear to range, 

 not having been as yet observed in New Zealand or New 

 Caledonia, and it has no Polynesian distribution, a singular 



* The geographical distribution of this and other species comprised in this 

 notice is exhaustively worked out in my " Birds of Ceylon," but I do not 

 transcribe it here, as it is advisable in dealing with Australia to follow out 

 the distribution of our species in a slightly different order. 



