1S60.1 Ornithology of Amoy. 2G3 



135. Tringoides hypoleucos, (L.) 



Our common species, found the greater part of the year on the 

 sea-shore. 



136. JRecurvirostra avocetta, L. Occasional winter visitant. 

 Chinensis, Gray. 



137. Tringa cinches, L. 



Upper tail-coverts black, and not white as in T. subarquata ; hill 



long and curved. 

 Frecpients our shores in large flocks during winter. 

 13S. Tringa minuta, Leisler. 



Autumnal flocks drop here. 

 139. Tringa TemmincJcii, Leisler. 



Found in small parties scattered over wet fallow paddy-fields in 

 the cold season. 



110. Scolopax rusticola, L. 



Drop here during their migrations or on their first arrival. 



111. Gallinago unicJava, Hodgson. 



Our commonest species in paddy-fields ; retires in summer to 

 hreed. 



112. Gallinago stenura, (Temminck.) 



Also common, but more solitary than the above. 



113. Gallinago solitaria (?), Hodgson. 



Found in ravines among the hills ; very solitary. It is a large 

 species and has the tail slightly rounded and consisting of 

 20 nearly equally long feathers ; the 8 middle ones broad and 

 the 6 lateral ones narrow, beginning with the 1st which is 

 little more than — wide and gradually increasing towards the 

 outermost of the 8 central, which is narrower than the rest. 



It differs a good deal from the species described as solitaria in 

 the Fauna Japonica. 

 111. Gallinago major, (L.) 



This species I have met only during the month of September 

 in fields overflowed with salt water. It is rather solitary and 

 rises with a cry. It resembles G. major more nearly than 

 any I am acquainted with, but has eighteen tail-feathers in- 

 stead of sixteen, and the outer toe is disproportionally long. 

 115. Gallinula orientalis. Rare. 



