the Banks of the Lena River. 421 



2 ad. Ustkutsk, river Lena, 2. vi. 1903. " Legs brown, 

 bill black, skin round eye yellow/' (No. 55.) 



This specimen, although a female, has the wing fully 

 118 mm. long, and the black band on the forehead rather 

 narrow (about 6 to 6'5 mm.). 



9. Heteractitis incanus brevipes (Vieill.). 



Totanus brevipes Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vi. 

 p. 410 (1876: " Pays inconuu." Typical locality Timor! 

 Cf. Pucheran, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, pp. 370, 570). 



<$ ? . Upper Lena River, 9. vi. 1903. <: Legs yellow, bill 

 and nails blackish." (Nos. 29, 37.) 



10. Tringoides hypoleucos (L.). 



Tringa hypoleucos Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 149 

 (1758: " Hab. in Europa." Typical locality Sweden; first 

 quotation ' Fauna Suec' 147). 



Various places along the Lena River. (Nos. 1, 15, 152, 

 66.) 



Nestlings were taken on July 3rd, 1903. (Nos. 167 to 170.) 



[A bird was shot while perched upon a bush and shewing 

 signs of strong emotion. In a few minutes peeping cries 

 from a tangle of dog-roses, fallen limbs, and " horse-tails " 

 indicated that young birds were near. By careful search 

 four were found, in couples. They had just been hatched, 

 3.7.03. The site was among the closely growing firs on a 

 high mouldering bank of the river about four hundred 

 miles below Yakutsk. 



Another pair we found breeding upon the high banks of the 

 river some two hundred miles below Yakutsk, on July 1st. 

 One of the old birds was perched upon a tree.] 



11. Totanus glareola (L.), 



Tringa ocrophus /3. glareola Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. xii. 

 p. 250 (1766 : Habitat in Europa. First quotation and 

 diagnosis from l Fauna Suecica/ 185 ; typical locality there- 

 fore Sweden). 



Mouth of Lena River, 12. vii. 1903 (Nos. 277, 278; and 

 at Gigalowa, 17. viii. 1903 (No. 393). 



