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Siberia through Turkestan, while during the northern winter this 

 species is spread all over Africa, India, the Malay countries and 

 Australia. In South Africa it is by no means uncommon and 

 appears to be found in suitable situations throughout the greater 

 part of the country during the southern summer months. 



The following are recorded localities : Cape Colony — Clanwilliam, 

 January, Berg Eiver, Cape division, October, Caledon, February 

 (S. A. Mus.), Knysna, January (Marais), George, October (Atmore), 

 Colesberg (Ortlepp), Orange Eiver near Upington, January, Febru- 

 ary (Bradshaw), near Aliwal Nortl^ January (Whitehead); Natal — 

 (Ayres) ; Orange Eiver Colony — Vred^fort Eoad (B. Hamilton) ; 

 Ehodesia — near Salisbury (|ilarshall) ; German South-west Africa — 

 Hykomkop, December, and Otjimbinque, January, December, in 

 Swakop Valley, Omanbonde -(Andersson) ; Tete on the Zambesi 

 (Kirk). 



Habits. — Like most of the Sandpipers this species is only a 

 migrant to South Africa during the colder months of the Northern 

 Hemisphere. It is to be seen singly or in pairs about small pools 

 and streamlets and on mud banks searching for its food, which con- 

 sists of worms, small mollusca and fish fry. This species occa- 

 sionally assumes its summer breeding-plumage before leaving South 

 Africa, as two examples in the South African Museum, both 

 obtained in February, from the Orange Eiver and from the Caledon 

 division respectively, are in this garb. 



741. Totanus glareola. Wood Sandpiper. 



Tringa ochropus glareola, Linn. Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i, p. 250 (1766). 



Totanus glareola, Grill, K. Vet. Akad. Handl. ii, no. 10, p. 53 [Cape 

 and Oudtshoorn] ; Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 248, 1864, p. 360 [Natal] ; 

 Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 326 (1867) ; Gurney, in Andersson' s B. 

 Damaral. p. 302 (1872) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 86 ; Dresser, B. Eur. 

 viii, p. 143, pi. 565 (1877) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1877, p. 351, 1878, p. 301, 1885, 

 p. 348, 1886, p. 293; Dates, Mataheleland, p. 325 (1881); Shelley, 

 Ibis, 1882, p. 366 [Spaldings] ; Butler, Feilden and Eeid, Zool. 1882, 

 p. 425 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 690 (1884) ; Seebohm, 

 Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 365, with fig. (1888) ; FlecJc, Journ. Ornith. 

 1894, p. 383 ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 192 (1896) ; Alexander, Ibis, 

 1900, p. 455 ; Beichenow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 222 (1900) ; Shortridge, 

 Ibis, 1904, p. 203. 



Bhyacophilus glareola, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiv. p. 491 (1896). 



