EASTEEN SANDEELING. 
in lower latitudes and its northward much higher, though it is not noted from 
Amoorland. A few are occasionally met with the winter through.”* 
“ Eare during the migrating season. A single male was shot out of a 
small flock on Bering Island, September 19th, 1882.” (Stejneger, lx.) 
“ Not rare at Koultouk on the Southern Baikal, and on the Onon in 
Dauria, more rarely found in the neighbourhood of the Tsouroukhaytouy 
on the Argoun. It inhabits the borders of lakes and rivers. It arrives in 
August and goes in the middle of September. During the spring it is very 
rare.” (Godlewski.) 
Of the birds figured and described, the male in the foreground was 
collected at Point Cloates, West Australia, on October 20th, 1901, by Mr. Tom 
Carter, the other on Melville Island, Northern Territory, by Mr. J. P. Eogers. 
The specific name used here is that proposed in the book known as the 
“ Vroeg ” Catalogue, and about which quite a considerable amount of litera- 
ture has recently arisen (Sherborn and Eichmond, Smithson. Miscel. Collect. 
(Qty. Issue), Vol. 47, pp. 332-347, 1905; Van Oort, Notes from Leyd. Mus., 
Vol. XXXIV., p. 66, 1911 ; Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. L, p. 29, 1912; 
Witmer-Stone, Auk, Vol. XXIX., p. 205, 1912). I consider the description 
given in the body of the work in this case quite recognisable and available, 
and therefore use it here. It is as follows (p. 32) : — 
“ Zand Pleviertje {Tringa leucophcea). Is was grooter dan een Leeurik. 
Het lyf is boven aschgraauw, het voorste lid van de vlerken en de slagpennen 
zyn zwartagtig, de bek en pooten zyn zwart. Valt aan de Noordsche Zee- 
kusten. [By nader nazien bevinden wy dat deeze eigen tlyk een Strand - 
loper is.] ” 
In the Adu7nbratiunculce (p. 7) this bird is called : — 
“ Trynga {alba) alba, supra canescens, remigibus nigricantibus, interius 
albis. Trynga proprie est, non Charadrius. Supra coUique lateribus incana, 
rhachibus nigricantibus. Magn. Canuti. Eemiges nigricant, interne albae 
& primariarum aliquot interiores exterius quoque ; tectrices secundariae 
apice albae. Humeri fusci Cauda inaequahs, rectricibus 2 mediis longioribus, 
omnibus fusco canescentibus.” 
Though long series of this bird are at hand no breeding-birds in numbers 
are available. There would however seem to be good reason for suggesting 
that in this bird as in most of the Waders, the American bird in full breeding- 
plumage wiU be found to be much paler than the European form, with the 
Eastern Asiatic form intermediate. 
I separated the collection in the British Museum into localities, with the 
result that the immature and winter birds gave the following results : 
* Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1863, p. 315. 
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