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delta it is said to be as abundant as the last species, feeding and intermingling with it. Capt. Ramsay procured 
it at Tonghoo, and Mr. Davison at Theinzeik, Tkatone, Amherst, and Mergui. Mr. Hume observes that it is 
sparingly distributed about the coasts, creeks, and rivers of the province in the cold season, but has not been 
observed far inland except at Tonghoo, nor in the extreme south. It is absent from the Andaman and Nicobar 
Islands, and has not been met with in the Malay peninsula. In the archipelago it has not as yet been observed, 
although we find Horsfield including in his catalogue of Javan birds a Plover which he calls this species; but 
Blyth, who examined the bird, is said to have identified it with the Mongolian Sand-Plover; and until it is 
found’ on the Malay islands, Ceylon will remain its most southerly limit. Following up the east coast of the 
continent before returning to North-west India, we find it recorded as common in winter on the coast of China ; 
and Pere David remarks that he found it breeding in large numbers on the Hoang-ko. It has recently been 
obtained by Mr. Everett in Mindanao (Philippines), and has also occurred in the Pelew Islands. In Japan 
it is common ; but on the mainland in Eastern Siberia it is rare. Sehrenck did not meet with it in Amoor Land, 
nor Middendorff in North-east Siberia, which is evidently beyond the northern limits of its range. Prjevalsky, 
however, met with it throughout Mongolia and about Koko-nor in flocks of three to seven individuals on the 
shores of salt lakes, where he considers it probable that it breeds. In spring it appears in South-east Mongolia, 
and about Koko-nor at the end of March. Pallas found it frequenting the salt lakes in Dauria ; and Radde 
procured it in Tarei-nor. In Eastern Turkestan it is, says Dr. Scully, a seasonal visitant to the plains, 
arriving about the end of March and disappearing in winter ; and it was found breeding by him at Sughuchak. 
Severtzoff also states that it breeds in North-west Turkestan up to an altitude of 4000 feet. It is found on 
the Mekran coast; and Capt. Butler met with it breeding on the island of Astolah, in the Gulf of Oman. In 
Kurrachee harbour it is common in the cold season; and Mr. Hume remarks that he met with it at that 
time all along the banks of the large rivers both in the Punjab and Sindh, and occasionally in some of the inland 
waters of the latter. He likewise procured it in many places in Northern Guzerat, Kattiawar, and Jodhpoor, 
where it is common on the coast and inland on the banks of rivers and lakes. At the Sambliur Lake 
Mr. Adam met with it in large flocks both during the rains and in the cold weather. 
It extends through Persia, Palestine, and Asia Minor to Europe, and in the Holy Land was found to be 
common by Canon Tristram. He met with it near the Kishon, and remarks that it breeds in several places in 
Palestine. In Turkey it is not uncommon ; Messrs. Elwes and Buckley found it breeding on the Bulgarian 
coast In Greece, Lindermeyer and Yon der Miihle met with it. It is not common in Transylvania, but 
has nevertheless been found breeding in the country. In Sardinia it is resident throughout the year, in Malta 
a strao-gler and in Italy common but local. It extends through Central Europe, being rare in Southern 
Germany, to Denmark and Sweden, in the south of which latter country it breeds, though it does not seem to 
visit Norway. It has not yet been recorded from Iceland and the Faroes, and probably never occurs in these 
islands. In England it is found only in the south-east, breeding in no other counties but Sussex and Kent. 
In France it is common on the west coast, and in the Channel Islands it is likewise plentiful. It is not 
uncommon in Spain, where Mr. Saunders found it breeding on the plains in the south ; and near Gibraltar it 
is very abundant, being found there throughout the year, but most plentifully during the season of migration. 
In Tangier, Favier states that it is resident and found at the mouths of the rivers ; but at the same time many 
are migratory, arriving in September and leaving again in spring. Mr. Drake likewise records it from 
Morocco ; in Algeria it is common, extending southward into the Sahara, where Canon Tristram found it 
universally distributed, breeding on the salt lakes there. In Egypt it is plentiful in winter, especially near 
Cairo • and to Nubia it likewise extends. Yon Ileuglin observed it on the Nile, but more frequently on the 
shores’ of the Red Sea, where it is found in summer, no doubt breeding there, and extending in September 
and October to the Gulf of Aden. It ranges down the east coast to Mozambique, where it has been found, 
and thence to Cape Colony, where one specimen is recorded by Layard as having been procured at Knysna. 
As it has not been recorded from the west coast, I imagine that any stragglers which find their way to South 
Africa wander thither by way of the east coast, and that this species does not extend down the western side 
much further than the latitude of the Cape Verds, in one island of which group (St. Vincent) it is resi- 
dent as I have myself shot it there in May while breeding. It has also been obtained in the Canary Islands ; 
and ’in the Azores Mr. Godman found it plentiful in Fayal and Terceira, where it breeds; he likewise met 
with it in St. Michael’s. 
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