114 mr. j. e. harting on arctic birds. [feb. 7, 



Rusty Blackbird. 



Scolecophaffus ferrugineus, Swainson ; Baird, Birds N. Amer. 

 p. 551. 



Scolecophagus niger, Bonap. Consp. p. 423. 



Turdus hudsonius and noveboracensis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 818. 



Turnstone. 



Strepsilas interpres, Illiger, Prod. Mamm. et Av. p. 26.3. 

 Tringa interpres, Linnaeus, Faun. Suec. p. 63. 

 Cinclus interpres, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 549. 



Golden Plover. 



Charadrius virginicus, Borckhausen and Bechstein, Licht. Verz. 

 Doubl. 729 (1823). 



Charadrius pluvialis, Wilson, Am. Orn. vii. p. 71, pi. lix. ; Swain- 

 son, Faun. Bor.-Amer. ii. p. 623 (nee Linnaeus). 



Case 9. The birds in this case, eleven in number, and belonging 

 to eight species, were procured by Captain Moore, of H.M.S. 

 ' Plover,' on the Choris Peninsula, Behring's Strates, in 1849. The 

 species are : — 



Grey-headed Wagtail. 

 Budytes fiava (Linnaeus). 



Snow-Bunting. 



Plectrophanes nivalis (Linnaeus). 

 Two. 



Lapland Bunting. 



Plectrophanes lapponicus (Nilsson). 



Mongolian Plover. 



jEgialites mongolicus, Pallas, Reise, iii. p. 700 ; Zoogr. R.-A. 

 ii. p, 136. 



JEgialites pyrrhothorax, Temm. Man. d'Om. 2nd ed. iv. p. 355. 



Two in summer plumage. The most northern locality recorded 

 for this species (c/. Harting, 'Ibis,' 1870, p. 389). 



Spoonbill Sandpiper. 



Eurynorhynchus pygmceus (Linnaeus), Pearson, J. A. S. B. v. 



p. 127. 



Eurynorhynchus griseus, Nilsson, Orn. Suec. ii. p. 29. 



Eurynorhynchus orientalis, Blyth, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. xiii. 

 p. 178. 



This specimen may be characterized as the rarest in the collection. 

 Very few specimens have ever been procured ; and this is the only 

 one in summer plumage known to exist. A figure and description of 

 this specimen will be found in ' The Ibis,' 1869, p. 426. 



