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or brackish water mud-flats, and was only once seen on 

 the river, some fifty miles from the sea. The birds arc 

 solitary or in pairs, and show no disposition to join together 

 in flocks. 



Tringoides hypolec/cus. 



The Common Sandpiper is certainly in most cases a winter 

 visitor, but there can be no doubt that some are resident 

 as well. As early as August 8 a flock of twenty were seen 

 in western Kwang Si, but the majority of those from the 

 north arrive in September, while most of the birds leave 

 again in April. Throughout the winter months they show 

 a great partiality for feeding on the rivers^ banks, inland, 

 and on the coast, for the rocky shores of the many inlets 

 about Mirs Bay, and for the boulder-strewn strands of 

 islands in the Canton River estuary. 



All through the summer birds have been observed, some- 

 times singly, and sometimes in pairs, both on the coast and 

 on the river. Whether such are breeding or non-breeding 

 birds is open to question, though certainly the latitude is 

 rather far south for this species. 



When they feed along the river-bank after dark, they are 

 often disturbed by the wash of a passing river-steamer, 

 which sends them flying over the stream uttering their well- 

 known cry. 



Tringa pacifica. 



Pelidna americana (Cass.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiv. p. 608. 



The Pacific Dunlin is an exceedingly common winter 

 visitor, and is almost always to be found in company with 

 jTlgiaUtis peroni. Although more numerous on the sea-coast 

 and in the Delta country, these birds are to be found far 

 inland and always in flocks. They leave for the north in 

 March and April. 



Tringa subminuta. 



Limonites damacensis (Horsf.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiv. 

 p. 553. 



Von Middendorff's Stint is a winter visitor, and has been 

 met with at Canton as early as August 25, and at Wong 



