THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
average specimens of the former, being in that respect more like M. hiaticula. 
They consequently are more unlike eggs of Eudroinias morinellus than those 
of typical Mgialitisi dimension 36 to 37.25 by 26.5 to 27.25.” 
Middendorff* says ; “ On June 30th our bird arrived in large flocks in 
the neighbourhood of the mouth of the Uda river in the Sea of Ochotsk. 
Until July 21st, these flocks were seen without my coming across any pairs 
or breeding birds, and on closer examination I found that they consisted 
almost entirely of females. They were in summer plumage. When wounded 
by a shot and pursued, they swam and dived pretty well.” 
Schrenckf writes : “ The Amur specimens of this species entirely agree 
with those of Middendorff’s drawings of specimens from Udskoi-Ostrog. 
“ I found it on the lower Amur near Chome, between the Gorin and 
Chongar-Mundung on the 9th (21) July in large flocks which kept together on 
the sandy, muddy shores of the Stromes. The flocks were nearly entirely 
composed of females. We got 7 females and I male out of 8 birds shot. 
Maack killed CJi. mongolians on the 29th June (II July) on the Southern 
Amur near Ssungari-Mundung.” 
RaddeJ : “ Like Pallas I seldom found this pretty species in the north-east 
portion of Mongolia. It appeared on the Tarei-Nor on the 12th of May, 1856, 
in a flock of about 50 individuals. The birds were then unusually wild ; 
they flew along the edge of the sea, and frequently performed the most skilful 
evolutions, and uttered no piping note. An adult male shot from this flock 
closely resembles the picture given by Middendorff. In no other parts of 
South-east Siberia did I find this sandpiper.” 
Of the birds figured, the one in full breeding-plumage was collected in 
Japan on April 21st, 1882, and the one in winter-plumage at Point Torment, 
North-west Australia, on February 21st, 1912, by Mr. J. P. Rogers. 
The only points of interest to Australian students in the synonymy of this 
bird, are that Gould described this species and the next as new, under the 
name Hiaticula inoruata, and later Ramsay again described this species under 
the name JEgialitis mastersi. This bird was also mistaken by Ramsay for 
C. hicinctus from Cardwell, and again recorded from the North-west by 
Carter as C. hicinctus : these can always be separated by the more slender bill 
of the latter. 
In the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, Vol. XXIV., p. 226, 
1896, a species is included under the name OcMhodromus pyrrliotTiorax : the 
primary reference is given as Charadrius 'pyrrhothorax Gould, Birds Eur., Vol. IV., 
pi. 299, 1837 (ex Temm. MSS.), but a prior name is quoted as 0. inconspicuus 
* Sibirische Reise, Vol. II., p. 211, 1851. 
+ Vogel dea Amur-Landea, p. 411, 1860. 
XReiaen Sudan von Oat-Sibir., p. 324, 1863. 
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