WANDERING TATTLER. 
Its flight is graceful and very rapid. Its voice loud and harsh, almost 
screaming. I only met it among rocks and stones, seldom, if ever, on the 
sandy or gravelly beaches.”* 
The bird figured and described is the only Australian record ; and is now 
in my collection. Nothing is known about the specimen ; there is however 
quite a probability of its being again recorded, as it is this form and not 
H. i. brevipes which has been procured in Eiji and New Zealand. 
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* Stejneger, Bull. V.S. Nat. Mus., No. 29, p. 136, 1885. 
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