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LIMICOLjE. 



the back of the tarsus is very imperfectly scutellated. The American 

 Wandering Tattler must therefore be regarded as a rare wanderer on 

 migration to the Bonin Islands (Seebohm, IbiSj 1890, p. 104). 



326. TOTANUS GLAREOLA. 

 (WOOD-SANDPIPER.) 



Tringa glareola, Linnens, Syst. Nat. i. p. 149 (1768) ; Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. 

 p. 677 (1788). 



The Wood- Sandpiper is a small bird (wing from carpal joint about 

 5 inches) ; the lower back is nearly the same colour as the mantle ; 

 and the predominant colour of the upper tail-coverts, axillaries, and 

 under wing-coverts is white. 



Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, viii. pi. 565. 



Totanus glareola. 



The Wood-Sandpiper passes along the Japanese coasts both on 

 spring and on autumn migration. It is recorded from the Kurile 

 Islands (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 110), 

 and I have an example collected at Hakodadi on the 24th of August 

 by Mr. Henson, and a second from the same locality collected by 

 Mr. Snow in September. There is also an example in the Swinhoe 

 collection procured by Captain Blakiston in May at Hakodadi (Swin- 

 hoe, Ibis, 1874, p. 163), and two in the Pryer collection from Yoko- 

 hama. Mr. Ringer has procured it at Nagasaki, where the examples 



