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Professor Savi found one morning in the market at Pisa three specimens which had been captured 

 near that town. One of these is now in the Turin Museum." Dr. Blasius himself shot one 

 specimen at Vechelde, Brunswick, in the autumn, and knew of another having been obtained in 

 the same locality ; but beyond those above recorded we do not know of any other instances of its 

 occurrence in Europe, out of Eussia. Here it breeds plentifully in the vicinity of Archangel, as 

 will be seen by the notes supplied to us by our excellent correspondents, and given in detail 

 below. Pallas observed it in the high northern parts of Siberia, and only occurring in the 

 southern parts during migration. Dr. v. Middendorff says that he " found large flocks of these 

 birds on the south coast of the sea of Ochotsk, from the end of June to the middle of August, 

 which consisted chiefly of females, and did not seem to show signs of breeding, the ova likewise 

 not being developed. I counted over fifty in some flocks ; and when fired at they swam and 

 dived excellently. When solitary they uttered a piping note, reminding me of some of the 

 Totanidse." Dr. Eadde found scattered individuals near the outpost of Kirinsk, in the Southern 

 Apfelgebirge, early in August, in the swamps, and observes that they had just assumed the winter 

 plumage, and agreed in this respect with Europe-killed specimens. 



Further to the east Dr. von Schrenk procured a specimen of the Terek Sandpiper on the 

 Amoor, and the Dutch travellers met with it in Japan. Mr. Swinhoe has obtained it in several 

 different parts of China, and writes, " I have never observed it on the south Chinese coast, and it 

 is not improbable that it migrates southward through the interior." 



As regards its occurrence in India, Dr. Jerdon says, " This neat-plumaged little Sandpiper is 

 not very abundant in the south of India, but is met with more frequently towards the north ; it 

 frequents the shores of seas, backwaters, tanks, and rivers in small flocks." It has also been 

 found in Java and Sumatra and Borneo ; and Mr. Gould obtained a single specimen on the river 

 Mokai, in New South Wales, on the 12th of July, 1839 ; while, according to Lesson, it was 

 found in Van Diemen's Land by Labillardiere. 



Eegarding its range in Southern Africa, we may state that it has been procured by Mr. 

 Andersson in Damara Land, and by Mr. Ayres in Natal. The latter gentleman, in forwarding 

 an example to Mr. J. H. Gurney, writes as follows : — " The specimen sent was shot from a flock 

 of four or five, amongst the mangroves in the Bay ; they are scarce birds here." 



We translate the following notes on the breeding-habits of this wader by Count C. von 

 Hoffmannsegg and Mr. K. G. Henke (Allg. deutsche. natur. Zeitung, 1856, pp. 238-240): — ■ 



" During our journey in Northern Eussia we had good opportunities of observing the habits 

 of Limosa cinerea, and are thus enabled to give information respecting them. Our attention 

 having been called to it by Dr. Thienemann and Herr Staatsrath Brandt, of St. Petersburg, we 

 took particular pains in observing this bird's habits. On the flat banks of the northern Dwina 

 and its small tributaries Limosa cinerea is rather abundant ; and not only are the islands of the 

 Dwina delta their chief habitat, but we found them in numbers on a bare sandy peninsula on 

 the White Sea, nesting in company with Tringa temminckii below a colony of Arctic Terns 

 (Sterna arctica). Limosa cinerea appears to arrive at Archangel about the latter end of May, 

 seldom earlier in the month or in April; therefore the regular breeding-time may be stated as 

 early in June, which opinion is grounded on the following data : — 



" 1853. The first egg, nearly ready for exclusion, was cut out of the bird on the 29th of May. 



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