on Dr. Jerdon's ' Birds of India.' 163 



839. SypHEOTiDEs AURiTus (Latham); Temm. PL Col. 533. 

 Otis tetrax (iii. p. 625) has been intelligibly described to 



me as an inhabitant of the Peshawar valley, where, on account of 

 its small size, it is commonly given to the trained Falcons when 

 struck down by them. It is known to be common in Mesopo- 

 tamia; and my informant was well acquainted with the Likh {S. 

 auritus.) 



840. CuRsoRius coROMANDELicus (Gmel.) ; Vieillot, Gal. 

 des Ois. pi. 232 [figura mala) ; Gould, B. As. pt. viii. pi. 



840, bis. CuRSORius gallicus ; Appendix, p. 874. 



In a letter lately received. Dr. Jerdon mentions that this bird 

 is " tolerably common " in the desert country westward of Delhi; 

 whence he has sent a specimen. The egg is figured (Ibis, 1859, 

 pi. ii.). 



842. Glareola orientalis extends its range to China. It 

 breeds sometimes in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, where I 

 have seen two or three brought to the provision-bazar too young 

 to fly. A specimen with the feathers half-grown is mounted 

 in the Calcutta Museum, and another which must have been 

 bred at no great distance. Mr. Gould now considers the Aus- 

 tralian Pratincole to be distinct from this. He has received the 

 true G, pratincola from both the Bombay and Madras Pre- 

 sidencies By a slip of the pen Dr. Jerdon assigns Oreophilus 

 totanirostris to Austraha (iii. p. 629) instead of South America. 



845. Charadrius longipes. 



Mr. Gould gives the range of the European C. pluvialis as 

 extending to Afghanistan (B. Gt. Brit. pt. v.). C pluvialis 

 from China, noticed in the Ornithological Report accompanying 

 the narrative of Commodore Perry^s Expedition, is of course C. 

 longipes. 



846. ^GIALITES LESCHENAULTI (LcSSOu) . 



To this species belongs the Charadrius asiaticus of Horsfield and 

 of Mr. Tristram (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 450), but not of Pallas, which 

 is quite a difi'erent bird, and identified by Mr. Gould (Handb. B. 

 Austral, ii. p. 229) with his C. veredus (the Cursorius isabellinus of 

 Horsfield !), the latter being the young. The true C. asiaticus will 



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