Vol. XXXVl 

 1918 



Dixon, The Spoon-billed Sandpiper. 389 



1900. Grinnell, p. 74. "This specimen was in summer plumage and was 

 taken on the Choris Peninsula by Captain Moore of H. M. S. 

 Plover in 1849." 



1887. Nelson, p. 112. "The presence of this remarkable little Sandpiper 

 in the list of birds of Alaska is due to the capture of a specimen 

 at Choris Peninsula, during the summer of 1849, by the captain 

 of the British ship Plover — Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society (1871, p. 110)." 



1884. Coues, p. 78. "It is recorded by Harting, P. Z. S., 1871, pp. Ill, 

 114, from Choris Peninsula, the specimen said to have been 

 procured there in 1849, and figured in the Ibis, 1869, p. 426, 

 PI. XII." 



1883. Nelson, p. 87. "The record of this specimen is in the proceedings 

 of the London Zoological Society for 1871, p. 110." 



1871. Harting, p. 111. "It was obtained by Capt. Moore on the Choris 

 Peninsula .... This specimen was described and figured in ' The 

 Ibis' for 1869, p. 426, PI. XII." 



1869. Harting, p. 433. "24. One in summer plumage from Behring's 

 Straits, by expedition under Capt. Moore in H. M. S. 'Plover' 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 201). Now in new Museum at Oxford." 



1859. Secretary Zool. Soc. London, p. 201. "Mr. Sclater exhibited 

 specimens of two rare species of Arctic birds from the collection 

 of John Barrow, Esq. . . . One of these was the new species of 

 Diver with a white bill, described by Mr. G. R. Gray as Colymbus 

 adamsi .... The other was an example of the exceedingly scarce- 

 Wader with a spatulated bill Eurinorhynchus pygmceus .... in 

 what was apparently its summer dress, the head, neck and breast 

 being rufous. . . . The locality of this specimen was supposed to 

 be the North-eastern Coast of Asia." 



The following data regarding the itinerary of the Plover on this 

 particular voyage have been obtained chiefly from 'The Tents of 

 the Tuski' by Lieut. W. H. Hooper, an officer under Capt. Moore 

 during this voyage of the Plover. Seeman's narrative of the 

 voyage of H. M. S. Herald, 1845-51, also throws considerable light 

 on this voyage of the Plover, as both ships were sent on the same 

 mission. The Plover and Herald were two of several ships sent 

 out between 1848 and 1852 from England to search for Sir John 

 Franklin. The Plover sailed from England in January, 1848, on 

 this voyage (Seemann, 1853, p. 191) but being a slow sailer did 

 not reach her destination, Kotzebue Sound, that year. The 

 Plover went into winter quarters in what is now known as Plover 

 Bay, a small bay within Providence Bay, northeastern Siberia 



