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Limosa lapponica, Zinné. 
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in the Kurrachee Harbour, and ascertained its occur- 
rence further east about the mouths of the Indus. 
Subsequently Captain Butler procured a few speci- 
mens at Kurrachee. There is no other authentic 
instance of its occurrence within our limits. 
No doubt Blyth says (ds, 1865, p. 36, n.) : “ There 
is an ene example in the Derby Museum, Liverpool, pre- 
sented by Colonel Everest. Mr. Hodgson also obtained the 
species in Nepal.’ Colonel Everest, at one time or another, 
worked almost all over India, but no doubt much of his time 
was spent in the Himalayas, and this specimen ay have been 
obtained there, or it may not have been obtained in India at 
all. As for its alleged occurrence in Nepal, Hodgson does 
not figure the species, nor mention it in any of his notes, nor 
is it included in any of his, or Mr. Gray’s, lists of his collections 
to which I have access. Dresser calmly states that “ Captain 
Bulger records it as not uncommon at Mulcivon, Selham and 
Ras Dowra in Sikhim!” It seems almost needless to say that 
Captain Bulger does nothing of the kind. Of course these 
places could ot be in Sikhim, but must be in some country 
where Arabic is spoken, and accordingly I find that itis Mr. 
C. F. Tyrwhitt Drake who makes the above-quoted remark in 
his Birds of Morocco, (Ibis, 1869, 154). 
Outside our limits it has been shot near Ormarra on the 
Mekran Coast, but I have no record of its occurrence elsewhere 
in Beluchistan, nor in Afghanistan, nor Eastern or Western 
Turkestan, norin Persia ; but as both Pallas and Eichwald say, it 
is common on the Caspian, and I know it to occur on the Mekran 
Coast, it most probably also visits both the Northern and 
Southern Coasts of Persia. It is rare on the Black Sea, and the 
islands of the eastern portion of the Mediterranean, and it 
does not seem to have been as yet observed in either Asia 
Minor or Palestine. 
Brehm says it occursin Egypt and Nubia, but neither Shelley 
nor Heuglin ever met with it there; the latter, however, shot it 
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