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rectrices pointed, the median ones more so than the others ; a streak over the eye white, spotted with 

 black ; underparts white, the throat and upper breast spotted with black, and the rest of the under- 

 pays marked with large V-shaped or squamate blackish markings ; breast and flanks washed with 

 rufous : bill olivaceous at the base, otherwise blackish brown; legs yellowish olive ; iris hazel-brown. 

 Total length about 8'0 inches, culmen l - 25, wing 53, tail 2 - 15, tarsus l - 2. 



Young (Yokohama). Differs from the adult in having the upper parts darker, the streak over the eye 

 broader and whiter, and the underparts without any squamate markings, the chin and upper throat 

 with scarcely any markings, the lower throat and breast warm buff faintly streaked with brown, and 

 the rest of the underparts pure white. 



The range of the present species is very extensive, as it has been recorded from Northern India 

 eastward to China and Japan, northward through Eastern Siberia to Kamtschatka and Alaska, and 

 south to the Pelew Islands, the Sunda Islands, and the Moluccas to New Guinea, New Ireland, 

 the Friendly Islands, Australia, and New Zealand. 



It has also strayed to England, where it seems to have occurred twice — the first specimen 

 now in the Norwich Museum, and said to have been killed on the Denes of Great Yarmouth at 

 the end of September, 1848, but at the time believed to be and consequently recorded 

 (Zoologist, 1849, p. 2392) as a "Pectoral Sandpiper," having been sent to the late 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney, who subsequently suspected (torn. cit. p. 2568) he might have been deceived 

 as to the place where it was procured. Through the vigilance of Mr. Lowne, one shot by 

 Mr. T. Ground, 29th August, 1892, on the mud-flats of Breydon Broad, near the same town, was 

 brought to the notice of Mr. Southwell, who, after it had been determined by Mr. Gurney, Jun., 

 at once recorded it in the 'Zoologist' for October in that year (pp. 356-358). Mr. Southwell's 

 attention having been thus called to the subject, he found that the former specimen undoubtedly 

 belonged to this species, and recorded the fact in the same journal for the following month 

 (pp. 405, 406), beside bringing the matter before the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society 

 on the 27th of September, in whose 'Transactions' (vol. v. pp. 364-368) his remarks may be 

 read. Mr. Ground's example was also exhibited to the Zoological Society of London, at its 

 meeting on the 15th November (P. Z. S. 1892, p. 581). Subsequently these particulars 

 were partially communicated to ' The Ibis' for 1893 (pp. 181-185) by the late Mr. Seebohn, and 

 a figure from Mr. Ground's specimen was then given (pi. v.) by the Editor. 



So far as I am aware this Sandpiper has not been met with in Continental Europe, and in 

 Asia I do not find it recorded from anywhere west of Gilgit, where Col. John Biddulph 

 (Ibis, 1882, p. 287) shot a single specimen, a male in adult plumage, on the 1st August. It 

 was, he says, flying about with a number of Machetes pugnax. It has not been observed by any 

 of the Indian ornithologists, nor do I find any record of its occurrence between Gilgit and China, 

 where, according to Pere David (Ois. de la Chine, p. 470), large numbers pass along the coast in 

 the spring, and late in the summer it is very numerous in marshy places near Pekin; and 

 Mr. Swinhoe (Ibis, 1863, p. 412) found it very abundant on the marshes of Takoo, North 

 China, in August, when a few may always be seen passing southwards. They return north 

 late in May, and he procured specimens on the 18th and 21st of that month. According to 

 Mr. Styan (Ibis, 1891, p. 506) it passes Shanghai in fair numbers in April and May; and it is 

 abundant at Foochow at the same time. In Japan it appears to occur regularly on passage. 



