A VJ FAUNA OF LATSAN, ETC. 



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62. HETER ACTITIS INCANUS (Gm.). 



ULILI. 



Totanus canus, antea, Part I. p. 15 (1893). 



Heteractitis incanus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. pp. 453-456 (1896). 



Palmer obtained specimens on Kauai from January to April 1891, on Molokai in January 

 1893, and on Niihau in July of the same year. It frequents the shores of the islands 

 mostly in winter. 



Professor Schauinsland sent me a series collected on Laysan in August and September. 



63. HETEROPYGIA ACUMINATA (Horsf.). 



SIBERIAN PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 



Totanus acuminatus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 192 (1821). 

 Hcteropygia acuminata, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. pp. 566-570 (1896). 



Palmer procured three females on the island of Maui on the 6th of October, 1892. 



Dr. Sharpe gives the distribution of this species as follows :— " Eastern Siberia, 

 Kamtchatka, the Commander Islands and Alaska, breeding in the latter localities, and 

 passing on migration by Japan and China to the Malayan Archipelago, Australia, and 

 New Zealand." 



Two specimens are recorded from Great Britain. The first was obtained near 

 Yarmouth in September 1848, the second on August 29th, 1892, at Breydon in Norfolk. 



