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delta it is said to be as abundant as the last species, feeding and intermingling with it. Capt. Ramsay procured 

 it at Tonghoo, and Mr. Davison at Theinzeik, Thatone, Amherst, and Mergui. Mr. Hume observes that it is 

 sparingly distributed about the coasts, creeks, and rivers of the province in the cold season, but has not been 

 observed far inland except at Tonghoo, nor in the extreme south. It is absent from the Andaman and Nicobar 

 Islands, and has not been met with in the Malay peninsula. In the archipelago it has not as yet been observed, 

 although we fiDd Horsfield including in his catalogue of Javan birds a Plover which he calls this species ; but 

 Blyth, who examined the bird, is said to have identified it with the Mongolian Sand-Plover; and until it is 

 found on the Malay islands, Ceylon ■will remain its most southerly limit. Following up the east coast of the 

 continent before returning to North- west India, we find it recorded as common in winter on the coast of China ; 

 and Pere David remarks that he found it breeding in large numbers on the Hoang-ho. It has recently been 

 obtained by Mr. Everett in Mindanao (Philippines), and has also occurred in the Pelew Islands. In Japan 

 it is common ; but on the mainland in Eastern Siberia it is rare. Schrenck did not meet with it in Amoor Land, 

 nor Middendorff in North-east Siberia, which is evidently beyond the northern limits of its range. Prjevalsky, 

 however, met with it throughout Mongolia and about Koko-nor in flocks of three to seven individuals on the 

 shores of salt lakes, where he considers it probable that it breeds. In spring it appears in South-east Mongolia, 

 and about Koko-nor at the end of March. Pallas found it frequenting the salt lakes in Dauria ; and Radde 

 procured it in Tarei-nor. In Eastern Turkestan it is, says Dr. Scully, a seasonal visitant to the plains, 

 arriving about the end of March and disappearing in winter ; and it was found breeding by him at Sughuchak. 

 Severtzoff also states that it breeds in North-west Turkestan up to an altitude of 4000 feet. It is found on 

 the Mekran coast ; and Capt. Butler met with it breeding on the island of Astolah, in the Gulf of Oman. In 

 Kurrachee hai'bour it is common in the cold season; and Mr. Hume remarks that he met with it at that 

 time all along the banks of the large rivers both in the Punjab and Sindh, and occasionally in some of the inland 

 waters of the latter. He likewise procured it in many places in Northern Guzerat, Kattiawar, and Jodhpoor, 

 where it is common on the coast and inland on the banks of rivers and lakes. At the Sambhur Lake 

 Mr. Adam met with it in large flocks both during the rains and in the cold weather. 



It extends through Persia, Palestine, and Asia Minor to Europe, and in the Holy Land was found to be 

 common by Canon Tristram. He met with it near the Kishon, and remarks that it breeds in several places in 

 Palestine. In Turkey it is not uncommon ; Messrs. Elwes and Buckley found it breeding on the Bulgarian 

 coast. In Greece, Lindermeyer and Von der Miihle met with it. It is not common in Transylvania, but 

 has nevertheless been found breeding in the country. In Sardinia it is resident throughout the year, in Malta 

 a straggler, and in Italy common but local. It extends through Central Europe, being rare in Southern 

 Germany, to Denmark and Sweden, in the south of which latter country it breeds, though it does not seem to 

 visit Norway. It has not yet been recorded from Iceland and the Faroes, and probably never occurs in these 

 islands. In England it is found only in the south-east, breeding in no other counties but Sussex and Kent. 

 In France it is common on the west coast, and in the Channel Islands it is likewise plentiful. It is not 

 uncommon in Spain, where Mr. Saunders found it breeding on the plains in the south ; and near Gibraltar it 

 is very abundant, being found there throughout the year, but most plentifully during the season of migration. 

 In Tangier, Favier states that it is resident and found at the mouths of the rivers ; but at the same time many 

 are migratory, arriving in September and leaving again in spring. Mr. Drake likewise records it from 

 Morocco ; in Algeria it is common, extending southward into the Sahara, where Canon Tristram found it 

 universally distributed, breeding on the salt lakes there. In Egypt it is plentiful in winter, especially near 

 Cairo ; and to Nubia it likewise extends. Von Heuglin observed it on the Nile, but more frequently on the 

 shores of the Red Sea, where it is found in summer, no doubt breeding there, and extending in September 

 and October to the Gulf of Aden. It ranges down the east coast to Mozambique, where it has been found, 

 and thence to Cape Colony, where one specimen is recorded by Layard as having been procured at Knysna. 

 As it has not been recorded from the west coast, I imagine that any stragglers which find their way to South 

 Africa wander thither by way of the east coast, and that this species does not extend down the western side 

 much further than the latitude of the Cape Verds, in one island of which group (St. Vincent) it is resi- 

 dent, as I have myself shot it there in May while breeding. It has also been obtained in the Canary Islands ; 

 and in the Azores Mr. Godman found it plentiful in Fayal and Terceira, where it breeds ; he likewise met 

 with it in St. Michael's. 



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