64 MARSH SANDPIPER. 



On the African shores we find it recorded by Dr. 

 Heuglin ("Ibis/' vol. i, p. 347,) as having been ob- 

 served at Massana, in Abyssinia, on the shores of the 

 Red Sea. Mr. Taylor, in the same volume, informs 

 us that a single specimen was taken by him near 

 Denderah, in Egypt; and Captain Loche includes it 

 in his Algerian fauna, but only as a bird of passage. 

 Extending eastward. Dr. Leith Adams says it is very 

 common in Hindostan, and the countries westward; and 

 Captain Irby, in the "Ibis," vol. iii, p. 239, on the 

 "Birds of Oudh and Kumaon," remarks that it is "very 

 common in the cold season. In habits resembles Actitis 

 glareola, being more of a Marsh Sandpiper than A. 

 ocliropus or A. hypoleucos, both of which are found on 

 the banks of rivers; the Common Sandpiper being 

 seldom seen on muddy marshes." 



From "Naumannia" for 1850, part 2, page 8, I copy 

 the following about this bird, by Dr. J. F. ISTaumann: 

 — "It is seen rarely in Anhalt. It has become more 

 and more rare during the last ten years. Sometimes 

 it has been taken by ray brother on the river Wulfen. 

 Once he shot the female, and in 1835 a pair brought 

 out young ones in that locality. They appeared on 

 the shallow water which remained on the morasses 

 after the dry summer. He killed one on the 26th. of 

 June of that year. It was only, however, just fledged, 

 which induced him to spare the others. The brood 

 consisted of four young ones. This is the only example 

 known to me of the appearance of this rare bird in 

 Anhalt. It belongs to the south of Europe, but does 

 not appear plentiful anywhere. It is not common even in 

 Hungary, and in my journey through that interesting 

 ornithological country, I only saw two small flocks. It 

 comes thence solitarily to the south of Germanv, but 



