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same species, the female being much larger, and coloured in a more 

 brilliant and variegated manner. It is somewhat sparsely scattered 

 throughout the plains of China, from Canton to north of Foochow ; 

 but I do not think it ever occurs so far up as Shanghai. It is a re- 

 sident species, and generally found solitary or in very small parties. 



294. Calidris arenaria. 



Charadrius calidris, L. 

 Tringa tridactijla, Pall. 



This bird occurs at Amoy and on the South China coast only in 

 September, October, April, and May, its southward destination being 

 apparently in lower latitudes, and its northward much higher, though 

 it is not noted from Amoorland. A tew are occasionally met with 

 the winter through. 



295. Strepsilas interpres, L. 



The same remarks may be applied to this as the last. I have pro- 

 cured both these birds in summer as well as winter dress at Amoy. 



296. Lobipes hyperboreus, L. 



Noted from Amoorland. Parties come down our coast as early 

 as October, and some do not return till very late. I have procured 

 them off the Amoy coast in May, in nearly complete summer 

 plumage. 



297. Phalaropus fulicarius, L. 



I have not yet observed this species in China, but it occurs in 

 winter in Tlindostan. Middendorff found it breeding on the l/th 

 July in S.E. Siberia; and it thence doubtless visits the interior of 

 China, if not the coast. It has been procured from Kamtschatka 

 and the Kurile Islands. 



298. Tringa tenuirostris. 



Totanus temdrostris, Horsf. Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 192. 



Schoeniclus magnus, Gould, Birds of Austr. 



T. crassiiostris, Temm. & Schleg. Faun. Jap. 1850. 



Noted from Amoorland and Japan. A few occasionally come 

 down the China coast. I have one from Shanghai. Its migrations 

 from the Amoor are doubtless in a more easterly direction, towards 

 Australia, touching at Japan, from both which countries it has been 

 brought. 



299. Tringa canutus, L. 



Noted from Amoorland. Extremely rare in ('hina. I have a 

 young specimen from Shanghai. 



300. Tringa maritima, Briinn. 



Three specimens procured out of a flock, on the 9th August, by 

 Middendorff in Amoorland, lat. 75°. 



