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Show 1 14 Mil. .1. E. HARTING ON ARCTIC UIRDS. [Feb. 7, RUSTY BLACKBIRD. Scolecophagus ferrugineus, Swainson ; Baird, Birds N. Amer. p. 551. Scolecophagus niger, Bonap. Consp. p. 423. Turdus hudsonius and noveboracensis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 818. TURNSTONE. Strepsilas interpres, Illiger, Prod. Mamm. et Av. p. 263. Tringa interpres, Linnaeus, Faun. Suec. p. 63. Cinclus interpres, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 549. GOLDEN PLOVER. Charadrius virginicus, Borckhausen and Bechstein, Licht. Verz. Doubl. 729 (1823). Charadrius pluvialis, Wilson, Am. Orn. vii. p. 71, pL lix. ; Swainson, Faun. Bor.-Amer. ii. p. 623 (nee Linnaeus). Case 9. The birds in this case, eleven in number, and belonging to eight species, were procured by Captain Moore, of H.M.S. ' Plover,' on the Choris Peninsula, Behring's Strates, in 1849. The species are:- GREY-HEADED WAGTAIL. Budgtesflava (Linnaeus). SNOW-BUNTING. Plectrophanes nivalis (Linnaeus). Two. LAPLAND BUNTING. Plectrophanes lapponicus (Nilsson). MONGOLIAN PLOVER. jEgialites mongolians, Pallas, Reise, iii. p. 700; Zoogr. R.-A ii. p. 136. jEgialites pyrrhothorax, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2nd ed. iv. p. 355. Two in summer plumage. The most northern locality recorded for this species (cf. Harting, 'Ibis,' 1870, p. 389). SPOONBILL SANDPIPER. Eurynorhynchus pygmceus (Linnaeus), Pearson, J. A. S. B. v. p. 127. Eurynorhynchus griseus, Nilsson, Orn. Suec. ii. p. 29. Eurynorhynchus orientalis, Blyth, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 178. This specimen may be characterized as the rarest in the collection. Very few specimens have ever been procured; and this is the only one in summer plumage known to exist. A figure and description of this specimen will be found in ' The Ibis,' 1869, p. 426. |