408 Mr. R. Swinhoe on Formosan Ornithology. 
on lower. Legs and toes yellow ochre, washed with greenish 
grey ; claws black. The specimens of this bird I dissected were 
very fat. “ Proventriculus in. by at widest part; gizzard 
an irregular round, with moderately muscular lateral tendons, 
greatest diameter 1^, depth ^; epithelium thick and leathery, 
somewhat rough to the touch, widely and irregularly furrowed, 
and containing remains of a small Crab, of which the carapace 
and several legs were nearly entire. Cseca 1^ in. from anus, 
right one 1^, left rather longer, in thickness about y 1 ^. Intes¬ 
tine 18^ in. long; greatest thickness A* Tongue in. long, 
thick and horny, except close to the base, the lateral edges turned 
up, and the tip pointed.” 
This bird is a summer resident in Northern Japan, Kamt- 
schatka, and the Aleutian Isles (Temminck), migrating for the 
winter to the islands of the Indian Archipelago. In its migra¬ 
tions it passes the coasts of China and Formosa in September 
and April. I have procured specimens at these seasons at Amoy; 
and in Formosa I obtained three adults in summer plumage, 
and three immature birds at the end of August and beginning of 
September. According to Cassin, it also occurs on the coasts of 
Western America. The plumage of this species, in the imma¬ 
ture winter and summer dresses, has been well described by 
Schlegel in the ‘ Fauna Japonica.’ The young bird is mottled 
on the dark parts of the breast and flanks, and freckled on the 
scapulars and wing-coverts, with whitish. It is in this dress the 
T.pulverulentus of Muller. In the summer plumage it is spotted 
on the throat, and barred irregularly on the breast and flanks 
with blackish grey. In the winter, the breast is of a uniform 
colour with the back. It is then the T. cinereus of Gray’s 
‘ Genera.’ 
132. Tringoides hypoleucus (L.). 
An abundant resident species, though its numbers are greatly 
iucreased in winter by the arrival of flocks from the north. 
Adult, shot 3rd May. “ Length 7^- in.; wing ; tail 2^. 
Bill blackish, deeper at the tip, and more flesh-coloured towards 
the base, especially of lower mandible, with a slight bronze tint. 
Inside of mouth ochreous flesh-colour. Eye-rim very narrow 
