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DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Breeds in Scandinavian mountains, and 

 probably in north Russia and west Siberia. On migration visiting 

 coasts and inland waters of Denmark, Holland, Germany, France, 

 Switzerland, and Italy, Black and Caspian, Mediterranean and 

 Red Seas, Pamirs and India. Replaced farther east by paler form 

 (L. platyrhyncha sibirica Dress.), which is found on shores of sea of 

 Ochotsk, and probably on Lake Baikal, and in winter in Japan, 

 China, and even Malayan and Moluccan Islands. It must breed in 

 east Siberia. 



MACRORHAMPHUS GRISEUS 



386. Macrorhamphus griseus griseus (Gin..) THE RED- 

 BREASTED SANDPIPER. 



SCOLOPAX GRISEA Gmelin, Syst. Xat., i, ii, p. 658 (1789 Coast of New 



York). 



Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmelin), Yarrell, in, p. 357 ; Saunders, p. 621. 



DISTRIBUTION. British Isles. Over twenty from Aug. to Oct. in 

 various years. Yorks. (one), Lines, (one), Norfolk (three), Middlesex 

 (two), Kent (three), Hants, (two), Devon (one or more), Scilly (one), 

 Lanes, (two), Cumberland (one), Fife (one), Lanark (one), Argyll 

 (one), Queen's co. (one), Tipperary (one). (Saunders, p. 621 ; Brit. 

 B., i, p. 231, n, p. 270 ; Hist. Birds Kent, p. 481.) 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Eastern North America, exact breeding 

 range unknown. Winters from Florida and west Indies south to 

 north Brazil ; passes on migration along Atlantic coast of North 

 America and occasionally through Illinois, Indiana, and Ontario ; 

 accidental in Greenland, Bermudas, and France. Replaced by a 

 closely-allied race in western North America. 



TRINGA HYPOLEUCA* 



387. Tringa hypoleuca L. THE COMMON SANDPIPER. 



TRINGA HYPOLEUCOS Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 149 (1758 Europe. 



Restricted typical locality : Sweden). 



Totanus hypoleucus (Linnaeus), Yarrell, in, p. 446 ; Saunders, p. 605. 



DISTRIBUTION. British Isles. Summer-resident (April to Sept. 

 occasionally March, Oct. and Nov.). Breeds only very exceptionally 

 south and east of a line from Bristol Channel to Humber, but not 

 uncommonly Devonian peninsula. West and north of this line 

 breeds throughout England and Wales, and Scotland and its isles, 

 and in Ireland except in south-east, where scarce. Elsewhere 

 common passage -migrant. A few may sometimes winter south 

 Devon. 



* The name Tringa cannot be used for the birds hitherto called Tringa. 

 The genotype of Tringa is, by tautonymy, Tringa ocrophus. See Smithsonian 

 Inst. Publication, 1838 (July, 1910), pp. 31, 33 ; Nov. Zool., 1911, p. 5. E.H. 



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