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June. The breeding home of the species will probably be 
found in the New Siberian Islands, as the nesting of the species 
on Kolguev, where it was thought that the Curlew-Sandpiper 
might breed, has not been verified by the recent explorations 
of Mr. Trevor-Battye and the Messrs. Pearson. 
Habits. — The Curlew-Sandpiper is often found in flocks on 
our mud-flats and shingles in the autumn, where they either feed 
in company or consort with the Dunlins, from which they can 
hardly be distinguished by an ordinary observer. Occasionally 
a single bird may be procured, and in the case where it is found 
solitary, it is generally a young bird which is wending its way 
south alone, or an old bird which is resting on its way to com- 
plete its moult, as is evidenced by the number of red feathers 
which it has not shed. Its habits and food are so precisely 
like those of the Dunlin, that no special description is neces 
sarj'. 
Nest. — Unknown. 
Eggs. — U nkno wn. 
THE PECTORAL SANDPIPER.S. GENUS IIETEROPYGIA. 
Ileteropygia, Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1861, p. 191. 
Type, JI. fuscicollis (V.). 
The members of this genus are four in number, and three 
of them have occurred accidentally in Great Britain. They 
have generally been associated with the Knots and Dunlins in 
the genera 'TviTigd and but they differ from these 
in the shorter bill, which is not longer than the tarsus, and 
thus they are more closely allied to the Stints_(Zr;«ti«rto) and 
the Sanderling {Calidris). They differ, however, from the latter 
genera in having the tarsus longer than the middle toe and 
c aw. 
I. Bonaparte’s sandpiper, heteropygia fuscicollis. 
Tringa fuscicollis, Vieill. N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 461 
(1819); Dresser. B. Eur. viii. p. 15, pi. 547 (1873)1 
B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 168 (1883); Saunders, Man. 
Brit. B. p. 567 (1889). 
