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less abundantly on the fells in the birch-region ; and 

 occasionally wintering in some numbers on the south coast. 

 In Swedish Lapland and Russia it is very common in 

 summer, its northward range extending to Novaya Zemlya. 

 In Denmark it nests in places where the coast is flat, with 

 short grass ; also on the shores of the Baltic, Northern 

 Germany, and, according to Professor Schlegel, sometimes 

 on the Hoek van Holland, at the mouth of the Maas : these 

 birds belonging to the smaller race. The approach of cold 

 weather drives it to the south, and from the autumn onwards 

 it is generally distributed over the rest of Europe : princi- 

 pally on the coasts, but not unfrequently on the inland 

 waters. To the Iberian Peninsula it is a regular migrant, 

 but some remain to breed, for Mr. Abel Chapman shot a 

 bird in the marisma below Jerez de la Frontera, from a 

 clutch of four eggs, one of which he gave to the Editor, 

 and it is now in the collection of Mr. H. Seebohm. From 

 autumn to spring this species is abundant on the shores and 

 islands of the Mediterranean ; and, according to Dr. Giglioli, 

 it undoubtedly breeds in the marshes of Venetia in Northern 

 Italy. 



On migration the Dunlin visits the Canaries and the 

 coasts of Morocco, Algeria, and Egypt ; whence it goes 

 southwards along the Nile to Nubia, Kordofan, Sennaar, 

 and Abyssinia, and down the Red Sea and along Eastern 

 Africa to Zanzibar and Mozambique. In Asia it occurs on 

 passage, and in winter on the southern shores of the Caspian, 

 on the coasts of Baluchistan, in Nepal, and on the northern 

 shores of India ; but it has not yet been obtained in Ceylon 

 or Tenasserim, although examples from Borneo and Java 

 are in the Leiden Museum. It migrates through Turkestan, 

 and Dr. Severtzoff says that it crosses the lofty Pamir Range 

 in September, probably on its way from Siberia, throughout 

 the whole northern portion of which it breeds as far as 

 Behring's Straits. From Kamtchatka its range can be 

 traced through the Kuril Islands to Japan, where, according 

 to Messrs. Blakiston and Pryer, individuals present the usual 

 variability in plumage and length of bill ; and it is recorded 



