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doubtless distributed tJiroiigli the whole Archipelago. In 

 Australia it has not yet been recorded from the north coast, 

 where it has been probably overlooked, owing- to its habit of 

 associating in two's and three's, or going about singly. It 

 has however been procured at Rockingham Bay, the 

 Clarence River, and Richmond districts, and in the colonies of 

 Victoria and South and West Australia. In Tasmania it is 

 found in small numbers, chiefly on the north coast, in which 

 locality Mr. Atkinson informs me stragglers may be seen in 

 the summer season. It does not appear to diverge into 

 Polynesia, nor is it found in New Zealand. 



Regarding its distribution in the western portion of the 



Paloearctic region and Africa, I transcribe the following from 



my Birds of Ceylon : — " Canon Tristram records it as a 



winter visitor to Palestine, and Robson as not uncommon in 



Asia Minor in autumn, a few staying through the winter. 



Lord Lilford procured it in the Epirus, and Lindermayer and 



Von der Miihle record it from Greece. In Malta, Sicily, and 



Sardinia it is a winter visitor, and in Spain, according to Mr. 



Saunders, is more common on passage than in winter, he 



obtained it in May in breeding plumage in Malaga. In Portugal 



it is said to be common." . ..." In Transylvania it 



occurs on migration, but rarely; further east it appears to 



pass through Southern Russia and up the Volga, being 



noticed in occasional seasons in the Kasan district. From 



here Messrs. Seebohm and Harvie Brown say that it probably 



passes down the Petchora to about the mouth of its tributary, 



the Assa, and then spreads over the vast Tundras to the 



north east, on which these enterprising naturalists were so 



fortunate as to take its eggs a few years since. The latter 



author met with it likewise near Archangel, but was told by 



the inhabitants that it did not breed there. There is much 



yet to be learnt concerning its breeding home, for we have yet 



to discover the whereabouts in the nesting time of those which 



migrate up the Baltic from western Europe.* In Great Britain 



the Grey Plover is fairly common on passage, arriving in spring 



and passing on in May to the north, and in Scotland Mr. 



Saunders remarks that it is " more abundant on the east 



coast than on the west," passing thence no doubt into 



• I think it right to mention for those who possess the " Birds of Ceylon," 

 that by some extraordinary oversight, probably through a missing sheet of 

 manuscript, the distribution of this cosmopolitan species in the British Isles 

 has been omitted ! The fact was not discovered by me iintil the preparatioii 

 of this paper. 



