Q2 BuTURLix, Correct Name of the Pdcifir Dnnliii. ftan' 



' Voyage ' are very rare, but Mr. Af. Al. lUyne in St. Petersburg- 

 most kindly sent me a copy. 



The text (Russian) is in three small quarto volumes, issued, 

 Vol. I in 1S09, Vol. II in 1810, and Vol. Ill in 1812. The first 

 two contain the Narrative of the voyage round the World in 

 1803, 4, 5 and 6, and the third contains some of the scientific 

 results. The botanical and zoological results were intended to 

 be published in Vol. IV (see Vol. Ill, pp. iii and iv), but unfor- 

 tunately it was never published. From pp. iv and 7 of Vol. I we 

 know that plates of natural history objects were drawn by Dr. 

 Tilesius of Leipsic, the naturalist of the expedition. 



To the text is adjoined a big'in-folio Atlas of XCVIII Plates, 

 issued in St. Petersburg in 1814 and bearing the following title: 



Atlas I zur | Reise um die Welt | unternommen aut Befehl | Seiner 

 Kaiserlichen Majestat | Alexander der Ersten | aufden Schiffen Nadcshda 

 und Neva | unter dem Commando | des Capitans von Krusenstern. | St. 

 Petersburg. | 1814. 



Curiously enough, Gray must have quoted Tab. 86 by a lapsus 

 calami (or a typographical error), — as Vieillot also quoted Tab. 

 85 : Tab. LXXXV of Krusenstern's Atlas represents a Wagtail 

 (perhaps M. leucopsis Gould) and a Titmouse, and Tab. LXXXVI 

 is a bad figure, that I take for a young Hcteractitis brevipes Vieill. 

 (it is termed " Tringa meleagris " on the plate, or " Die Braune 

 Weispunctierte Meerlerche "). 



But Plate LXXXIV represents very well the type of Vieillot's 

 description ; it is a fairly accurate, natural size (I presume) figure 

 of the Pacific Dunlin in breeding dress, with the typical, for the 

 Pacific form, pure white band across the chest, above the black 

 patch. The wing is 121 mm. (4.76 inch) long, and the culmen 

 38.5 mm. (1.51 in.); in the right upper part of the Plate the 

 bill is drawn as seen from above and nearly 1.5 : i of the natural 

 size (55.5 mm.); the outlines are clearly those of the Dunlin bill, 

 only it is made too straight. The bird on the plate bears not 

 only a Russian name,^ but also "Tringa Variegata oder der Bunte 

 Sachalinische Strandlaufer " ; it is stated also that the plate is by 

 Dr. Tilesius (" Tilesius p : Petrofif sc : "). 



'Indicating that the bird is from the island Saghalien. 



