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mounted and labelled as the first record for New Zealand. Subsequently, 
however, a specimen labelled “ Taieri Flat, 1902," was found in the Sm 
collection, from Dunedin. This specimen is now in the possession of Mr. 
Haynes, taxidermist to the Canterbury Museum. Since then I have got 
five more specimens, of which I kept two in my collection and gave three 
“It breeds in great numbers," says Seebohm in his Eggs of British 
Birds, “though very locally, on the Siberian tundra from Kolgneo Island 
and the North Cape eastward to the Taimur Peninsula . . . Where 
it nests in July." In the winter it migrates southward to Africa and 
southern Asia, India, and Ceylon. This is another of those birds which 
come to New Zealand, almost certainly via the Malay Archipelago, which 
have not yet been recorded from Australia. 
Trynga (alba) Pallas, Vroeg's Cat., p. 32, 1764 (Ridgway). Tringa 
arenaria Linn., Syst. Nat., 12th ed., 1766. Calidris arenaria 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 24, p. 526. Calidris alba 
Ridgway, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 50, pt. 8, p. 308, 1919. 
It is known to nest in Grinnell Land (lat. 82° 33’), Greenland, the barren 
lands of North America, Alaska, the Taimur Peninsula, the delta of the 
enisei, Novaya Zemlya, and Iceland. 
: minata 8 
Mus., vol. 24, p. 566, 1896; Buller, Suppl. Birds N.Z., vol. 1, 
P. 187, 1905. Pisobia maculata acuminata *Mathews, Ibis for 
April, 1913, р. 260. Рома acuminata Ridgway, Bull. Us. 
Nat. Mus. No. 20, pt. 8, p. 276, 1919. 
. Buller (Suppl., vol. 1, p. 187) refers to the marsh or sharp-tailed sand- 
Piper as being very numerous in the Bay of Plenty. І feel sure that 1t 15 
not so in Canterbury, for up to the present I have secured only one speci- 
men, which is now in the Canterbury Museum. 
Pisobia maculata (Vieillot) 1819. Pectoral sandpiper. 
Tringa maculata Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. d Hist. Nat., 34, p. 465, 1819. 
оруга harpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 2% 
р. 562, 1896. Pisobia maculata Ridgway, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 
No. 50, pt. 8, p. 269, 1919. 
Records. —(1) Lake Ellesmere (Februar 1909): Edgar F. Stead. 
(2), (3), (4). Lake Ellesmere : Edgar F. Sut (5.) (Immature specimen) 
Lake Ellesmere (5th March, 1920) : Edgar Е. Stead—Canterbury Museum | 
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