. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . %**>*- It is irregularly distributed, during the breeding-season, in the Arctic Regions fromthe Atlantic to the Pacific. It breeds on the Dovrefjeld above the limit of forest-growth,and throughout the tundras of Lapland. Henke says that it is only seen on migration atArchangel; Hoffmann records it from the source of the Petchora ; and Middendorff metwith it on the Boganida River, east of the Yenesay, in lat. 70°. It doubtless breeds inNorth-east Siberia, since it has occurred r
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . %**>*- It is irregularly distributed, during the breeding-season, in the Arctic Regions fromthe Atlantic to the Pacific. It breeds on the Dovrefjeld above the limit of forest-growth,and throughout the tundras of Lapland. Henke says that it is only seen on migration atArchangel; Hoffmann records it from the source of the Petchora ; and Middendorff metwith it on the Boganida River, east of the Yenesay, in lat. 70°. It doubtless breeds inNorth-east Siberia, since it has occurred repeatedly in Japan and once in did not meet with it near Lake Baikal, but Finsch records it on migration fromSouth-west Siberia. Severtzow says that it passes through Turkestan ; and Bogdanowrecords it in spring and autumn in the valley of the Volga. It winters throughout thebasin of the Mediterranean and inland in Africa north of the Great Desert, as well as inPersia, Afghanistan, India, Ceylon, and Geographi-cal distribu-tion. The sternum of the Jack Snipe differs from that of its congeners in having two sternum,notches on each side of the posterior margin. This circumstance and the fact that it has 3 Q 48-2 SCOLOPAX. only twelve rectrices are probably the reasons why it has been allowed to retain the genuscreated for its reception in the pree-Darwinian dark ages.
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