LAND-BIRDS OF BANDA ISLAND. 



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Corea, Japan, China, Luzon, Burma, Pegu, Assam, Tenasserim, 

 Malacca, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Great Banda, Goram, 

 Babar, Darna, Aru Islands, Ke Islands, Ternate, Gilolo, Australia, 

 Tasmania, New Zealand (Buller), accidental in eastern North 

 America (Florida), ? {Ridgway). 



The Greenshank feeds on mollusca, Crustacea, &c. It nests 

 in Northern Europe and Siberia ; a description of the egg is in 

 Dresser's ' Manual of Palsearctic Birds,' p. 786. 



Limonites ruficollis, Pall. (Eastern Little Stint). 

 Trynga ruficollis, Pall. Reis. Russ. Reichs, iii. p. 700 (1776). 



North-eastern Siberia, Dauria, Bering Island, Commander 

 Islands, Kurile Islands, Mongolia, Japan, Corea, China, Pala- 

 wan, Negros, Bohol, Pelew Islands, Burma, Pegu, Tenasserim, 

 Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Selangore, Malacca, Singa- 

 pore, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Sangir, Amboyna, Great Banda, 

 Ceram, Gilolo, Morty, New Guinea, Aru Islands, Salawatti, 

 Australia (occurs on Troughton Island and Rottnest Island), 

 Tasmania, New Zealand {Bailer). 



The food of the Eastern Little Stint consists of marine insects 

 and small mollusca. 



Ancylochilus subarquatus, Giild. (Curlew-Sandpiper). 



Scolopax subarquata, Giildenst., Nov. Comm. Petrop. xix. 

 p. 471, tab. xviii. (1774). 



Europe (occurs in Corsica), Greenland, occasional in eastern 

 North America and in Alaska (Ridgway), Africa, Teneriffe, 

 Madagascar, Rodriguez, Cyprus, Arabia, India, Ceylon, Diego 

 Garcia, Siberia, China, Hainan, Burma, Andaman Islands, 

 Pegu, Tenasserim, Selangore, Malacca, Singapore, Java, Great 

 Banda, New Guinea, Australia (occurs on Houtman's Abrolhos 

 and Rottnest Island), Tasmania, New Zealand (Bidler). 



The Curlew- Sandpiper nests in Northern Siberia and within 

 the Arctic Circle in Greenland. The egg is described as pale 

 greyish or greenish buffy spotted with deep brown, and with 

 purplish-grey markings. The length is from 1*47 in. to 1*40 in., 

 and the breadth from 1*02 in. to 1*0 in. 



