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Distribution. — British Isles.- — Winter -visitor and passage -migrant. 

 Distribution. — Abroad. — Breeds Iceland, Lapland, N. Russia, Spits- 

 bergen and perhaps W. Siberia. On migration all over Europe to N. 

 Africa and Canaries, in N.E. Africa to Abyssinia and Somaliland, casually 

 E. Africa. Replaced in Greenland by C. a. arctica, on shores of Baltic 

 and North Sea by C. a. schinzii, in N.E. Siberia and Arctic America 

 by C. a. sakhalina, and in W. Siberia by the somewhat doubtful 

 C. a. pusilla. 



572. 391. Calidris testacea (Pall.)— The Curlew-Sandpiper. 



Scolopax testacea Pallas, Vroeg's Cat. Verzam. Vogelen, etc., 



Adumbratiuncula, p. 6 (1764 — Holland) 

 instead of Calidris ferruginea (Brunnich) which is preoccupied by the 

 same name used by Pontoppidan for a bird, the description of which is 

 considered indeterminate by the majority of the B.O.U. List Com- 

 mittee (Hartert however disagreeing). 



584. The American Pectoral Sandpiper. 



Distribution. — Argyll, should be Dumbarton. 



590. The Purple Sandpiper. 



Synonym : Totanus Niger Forster, Syn. Cat. Brit. B., p. 24 (1817 — New 

 name for Tringa Lincolniensis !). 



600. Genus Limnodromus Wied. 



Limnodromus Wied, Beitr. Naturg. Brasil., iv, 2, p. 716 (1833 — 

 Monotype L. noveboracensis=griseus) 

 instead of Macrorhamphus Forster, because Fischer quoted 1813 a 

 " Macrorhamphus Lacepede." This name is a nomen nudum and was 

 not used by Lacepede who called his genus " Macrorhamphosus." 

 Nevertheless the majority of the B.O.U. List Committee decided that 

 Fischer's erroneous quotation anticipated the name Macrorhamphus, 

 so that Limnodromus would have to be used (Hartert disagreeing). 



644. The Red-necked Phalarope. 



Distribution. — Pair seen June 1916, island off W. coast Ireland, one 

 seen Tearaght Rock (Kerry) Oct. 1922. 



678. The Faeroe Snipe. 



Distribution.— One Fair Is. (Shetland), Sept 29, 1923. 

 698 The Caspian Tern. 



Should be numbered 437, not 537. 

 704. The Sandwich Tern. 



Distribution. — Bred Dorset 1923. Fame Is. temporarily deserted 



1922, returned 1923. Large increase Norfolk 1923. 

 712. 441. Sterna macrura Naum. — The}Arctic Tern. 



Sterna macrura Naumann, Isis, 1819, p. 1847 (Island Nordstrand 

 and coast of West Schleswig) 



instead of S. paradiscea Brunnich, 1764, which is preoccupied by the 



same name used in 1763 by Pontoppidan for a bird, the description 



of which is considered indeterminate by the majority of the B=O.U. 



List Committee (Hartert disagreeing). 

 757. The Scandinavian Lesser Black-backed Gull. 



Distribution. — Seen several occasions May 1923, passing Isle of May 



(Forth). 



761. The British Lesser Black-backed Gull. 



Distribution.— A few breed Yorks. 

 765. The Great Black-backed Gull. 



Distribution. — Bred Steep Holm (Somerset) 1923. 



