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RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 
Lake Buloke, in the Wimmera District of Yicto.iia, on 1st April, 
1891. The nest was built at a height of about fifteen feet, on the 
branch of a Eucalyptus standing in the water, it was outwardly 
composed of sticks lined inside with twigs, and contained five 
eggs, one of which was unfortunately broken in descending the 
tree. The eggs are elongated ovals in form tapering gradually 
towards the smaller end, where they are somewhat sharply pointed; 
the shell has a thick, white, calcareous covering, only a few scratches 
here and there revealing the true colour underneath, which is of 
a pale blue. Length (A) 2*41 x 1*45 inches ; (B) 2*32 x 1*42 
inches; (C) 2-34 x 1*45 inch; (D) 2*43 x 1*47 inch. Although 
very late in the season, Mr. Ayres found another Darter’s nest on 
the same day, containing five newly hatched young ones. 
This species is found all over Australia, but is more sparingly 
distributed in the extreme Southern and Western portions of the 
Continent. 
NOTE ON THE OCCURRENCE of the SANDERLING 
( CALIDRIS AREN ARIA ) in NEW SOUTH WALES. 
By Prof. Alfred Newton, M.A., E.R.S. 
Having lately occasion to investigate the range of the Sanderling 
(Calidris arenaria ), I came across a memorandum made in the 
year 1860 of my having then seen in the Derby Museum at Liver- 
pool, two specimens of the larger race of this species, one in 
Winter dress and the other in incipient Spring plumage, both 
being marked as females and as having been obtained at Sandy 
Cove in New South Wales, 20th April, 1844, by the late John 
Macgillivray. As this wandering species does not seem to have 
been hitherto recorded from Australia, this fact may be of some 
interest to the Ornithologists of that country. I may add that I 
find little verification of Temminck’s assertion in 1840 (Man. d J 
Ornithologie iv. p. 349) often repeated in one form or another 
that the Sanderling occurs in the Sunda Islands and New Guinea; 
or even, as by a recent writer who states in general terms, that 
it is a winter visitor to the islands of the Malay Archipelago 
(“Geographical Distribution of the Charadriidse <kc.” p. 432). Java 
seems to be the only one of these islands in which its presence has 
been determined, and though it was included with a mark of doubt 
in the lists of the Birds of Borneo by Prof. W. Blasius (1882) 
and Dr. Yorderman (1886) respectively, it has been omitted, and 
apparently with reason from that of Mr. Everitt (1889). It is well 
known to pass along the whole of the West Coast of America, 
and it has been obtained in the Galapagos and the Sandwich 
Islands, but I know of no instance of its having been observed in 
any Polynesian group or within the tropics to the eastward of Java. 
Magdalene College, Cambridge, 25th March, 1892. 
