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Show 1 87 1 .J MR. J. E. HARTING ON ARCTIC BIRDS. 11/ birds procured by the same officer, they were doubtless obtained in high northern latitudes. The five species are :- GREY PLOVER. Squatarola helvetica (Linnseus). One of the most widely distributed species. It frequents the sea-coasts, and fresh and salt waters of all known countries within the temperate and tropical zones. GOLDEN PLOVER. Charadrius virginicus, Borckhausen. Before referred to, in cases 8 & 9. LITTLE RINGED PLOVER. JEgialites minor, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 558. It is a little remarkable if this bird was obtained on the coast of North America, as it has not hitherto been recognized as an American species. Its place is supplied by ___". semipalmatus in the N ew World, where our common Ringed Plover (___*. hiaticula) is represented by the larger-billed ___*. wilsonii. BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. Tringa rufescens, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxix. p. 470 ; Baird, Birds N. Amer. p. 739; Yarrell, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 109, pl. 2. A good specimen of an American bird which, although not rare, it is very difficult to procure. GREY PHALAROPE. Phalaropus fulicarius (Linnaeus). Before noted, in case 7. Case 12. AMERICAN COOT. Fulica americana, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 704; Sabine, Frankl. Journ. p. 690 ; Faun. Bor.-Amer. (Birds) p. 404. Fulica atra, Wilson, A m . Orn. ix. p. 61, pl. lxxiii. Fulica wilsonii, Stephens, Shaw's Zool. xii. p. 236. Distinguishable from the European Fulica atra by the white on the crissum and wings, and by the frontal plate being red instead of white. The authors of 'Fauna Boreali-Americana' state (/. c), " It was not seen by us near Hudson's Bay, nor higher than the 55th parallel." The specimen in this case is from Jacob's Haven, opposite Disco, and was brought home in 1854 by Capt. Elliot, in H.M.S. ' Phoenix.' Cases 13, 14, 15. ROCK-GROUSE. Lagopus rupestris (Gmelin). Tetrao ruprestris, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 751. Lagopus rupestris, Leach, Zool. Misc. ii. p. 290. |
