THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Radde writes : “ On July 31st, this sandpiper was in full summer 
plumage, as the specimens shot on the Dshindagatai Lake proved. I found 
them only in flocks.” 
Of the birds described, the one in winter-plumage, which is the one figured, 
was collected on May 29th, 1909, at Wilson’s Inlet, South-west Australia, by 
Mr. F. L. Whitlock ; the male in full breeding-plumage, on MelviUe Island 
on April 24th, 1912, by Mr. J. P. Rogers. 
The few specimens available of this species in breeding-plumage, suggest 
that it has the same subspecific distinctions as the next bird treated. 
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