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IT. Charadrius Mvus (Gm.) (Wiglesworth No. 322 p. (33). 

 Common on February Otli. 



18. Aegialitis mongolus (Pall.). 

 One female, February 8th, 18iHi. Local name: " Klyn." Not mentioned by 

 Wiglesworth and Finsch. 



19. Squatarola squatarola (L.) 

 One /email', Rnk, January 20th, 1890. Not mentioned by Wiglesworth and 

 Finsch. 



20. Strepsilas interpres (L.) (Wiglesworth No. 320 p. G3.) 

 Common in February and March. 



21. Poliolimnas cinereus (Vieill.) (Wiglesworth No. 312 p. 01.) 



Five specimens sent from Rnk. The local name is " Iliilinebon." (Nov- 

 ZoOL. V. J). 64). 



Two nests were found on the swampy ground among the reeds, one con- 

 taining four, the other three eggs. The eggs are pale buff, or cream-colour, 

 .speckled all over with brownish rufous, more frequently near the broad end. In 

 some eggs these spots are larger, in others minute, and there are often some 

 underlying pale purplish grey spots. If held against the light the eggs shine 

 through very pale greenish yellow. They measure : 32 :22-8, 3M : 23.1, 33:23.5, 

 30-3 : 22-4, 30-2 : 235, 31 : 233 mm. 



22. Micranous leucocapillus (Gould). 



(Wiglesworth No. 3T0 p. 77, sub nomine sinous melanogenys .) 



Haifa dozen specimens were shot in November. Local name, " Pohlicki." 



23. Anous stolidus pileatus (Scop.) (.1. stolklus, Wiglesworth No. 375, p. 76). 



Lepetit Fouquet des Philqqiiiies, Sonnerat, Voyage a hi Nouv. Guinee p. 125, pi. 85 (1776). 

 Stemct pileaki, Scopoli, Dtl. Faiiii. el Flor. Insuhr. II. p. 92, no. 73, ex Sonnerat (178G). 

 Stermi philippina, Latham, Iiul. Oni. II. p. 805, ex Sonnerat (1790). 

 Annus rotis'ieaui, Hartl. Beitr. Oni, Madagoiicar, p. 8*i (1861). 

 Amuxfmtei; Cones in Pmc. Acad. Philad. 1862 p. 558 (South Pacific). 

 Anous stolidus rousscaui, Ridgway in Proc. U.S. Nat. Mns. XIX. pp. 645, 646. 



Messrs. Cones and llidgway are perfectly correct in separating the Noddy of 

 the Pacific from that of the Atlantic Ocean. The tail of A. s. pileatus is longer 

 and more graduated than that of .1. 3. stolidus, the pileum more greyish and 

 never so whitish, the general colouration more sooty and not so brown, the wing 

 generally longer. There is, however, no donbt that Sterna pileata is the oldest 

 term for this form, and that also Sterna pldlippina applies to it. Both these 

 names are based on the ^' Petit Fouquet des Philippines" of Sonnerat, who 

 distinctly describes (and figures rather badly) a white-crowned Noddy. The facts, 

 that only Anous stolidus and not Micranous leucocapillus is known to frequent 

 the Philippines, and that Sonnerat describes the size of his bird as twice that 



