. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . ore than half an inch longer thanthe outermost. The Grey Phalarope may almost beregarded as a circumpolar species, thoughit is not known to breed on the continentof Europe. Middendorff found it veryabundant on the Taimyr Peninsula ; describes it as the commonest Sand-piper in tbe delta of the Lena. During the expedition to Alaska in 1881-83 it was found Geogtaphi-abundant at Point Barrow. It has been obtained on the Parry Islands, in Grinnell-Land, tion>and in Greenlan
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . ore than half an inch longer thanthe outermost. The Grey Phalarope may almost beregarded as a circumpolar species, thoughit is not known to breed on the continentof Europe. Middendorff found it veryabundant on the Taimyr Peninsula ; describes it as the commonest Sand-piper in tbe delta of the Lena. During the expedition to Alaska in 1881-83 it was found Geogtaphi-abundant at Point Barrow. It has been obtained on the Parry Islands, in Grinnell-Land, tion>and in Greenland, Iceland, and Spitsbergen. It belongs to the class of gipsy migrantswhich never wander further from their breeding-grounds than they are compelled by stressof weather. It is a somewhat irregular winter visitor to Europe, and has occurred once inTangiers. It is not known to pass through Turkestan or South Siberia on migration, butit winters on the Mekran coast and in Scinde. Severtzoff says that it is a rare visitor tothe Pamir; a single example has been recorded from Calcutta, and it has even strayed as 2x2. £e<r &mz % 310 PHALAEOPITS. far as New Zealand (Haast, Trans. New Zealand Institute, 1883, p. 279) and Chili (Salvin,Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 429). I have examples from Kamtschatka and the KurileIslands. On the American continent it has occurred on both the Atlantic and the Pacificcoasts at least as far south as lat. 40°, and Audubon records the occurrence of a flock,consisting of at least a hundred birds, on the banks of the Ohio, in lat. 38°.
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