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25. ToTANUS GLOTTIS, (Lmnseus). 
Scolopax glottis, Linn., Syst. Nat. i. p. 245, (1766). 
Totanus glottoides, Gould? 
Gould, B. of Eur., iv., pi. 312. 
Specimens much resembling T. glottoides^ from Australia, but probably not 
distinct from the European bird. The first ever obtained in Japan. 
"Along the margin of a salt-water creek, near Hakodadi." (Dr. Hen- 
derson). 
26. Tringa magna, (Gould). 
Shoeniclus magnus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1848, p. 39. 
Tringa crassirostris, Temm. and Scheleg., Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 107, (1850). 
Gould, B. of Aust., vi., pi. 33, Temm. and Schleg. Faun. Jap. Aves, pi. 64. 
" Along the shores and in grassy plains, in flocks, near Hakodadi." (Dr. 
Henderson). 
27. Tringa alpina, Linnaeus. 
Tringa alpina, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 249, (1766). 
Gould, B. of Eur., iv. pi. 329. 
Identical with specimens from Europe, but smaller than the bird, regarded as 
the same species in the United States. The latter is our Tringa americana^ in 
Pacific Railroad Report, ix., p. 719. 
28. Tringa minuta, Leisler. 
Gould, B. of Eur. iv, pi. 332. 
Obtained in Japan for the first time, by Dr. Henderson, at Hakodadi, and 
not to be distinguished from European specimens. " Abundant, generally 
several together. Between the Bay of Hakodadi and the mountains to the 
northward a plain rises very gradually, which is dry near the shore, but two or 
three hundred yards beyond, are extensive grassy marshes. From these one 
or two small streams run to the Bay, before discharging into which they run 
for a mile or two nearly parallel to the beach, and frequently not more than 
thirty or forty yards distant. The tide ebbs and flows in these streams, and 
their shores are frequented by all the wading birds preceding, except the 
Scolopax^ (Dr. Henderson). 
29. Ndmenius. 
A species about the size of N. longirostris^ but with a shqrter bill, to which vv^e 
cannot at present apply a name, a single specimen in the collection being ap- 
parently in young plumage. It is smaller than N. major or N. arquata, and is 
the fourth species of Numenius^ now known to inhabit the empire of Japan, two 
having been given by Temminck and Schlegel, and a third having been ob- 
tained by Mr. Heine, naturalist, attached to Perry's U. S. Expedition to Japan. 
Hakodadi, 
30. Limosa lapponica, (Linnaeus). 
Scolopax lapponica. Linn. Syst., Nat. i, p, 246, (1766). 
Limosa rufa, Brisson, Orn, v., p. 281. 
Limosa ferruginea, Pallas. 
Gould, B. of Eur., iv. pi. 306; Naumann, B. of Germ. pi. 215. 
Not to be distinguished from European specimens. Hakodadi. 
31. H^MATOPus OSTRALEGUS, Liunasus. 
Haematopus ostralegus. Linn., Syst. Nat, i, p. 257, (1766). 
Gould, B. of Eur. iv., pi. 300; Naumann, B. of Germ., pi. 181. 
For the first time this bird was obtained in Japan by Dr. Henderson. It is 
stated by Temminck and Schlegel to be given in their catalogue, (Faun. Jap. 
p, 139) on the faith of a drawing by a native artist. Hakodadi. 
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