166 Mr. Blyth's, Commentarij 



iii. p. 142), which latter I have obtained^ rarely, in the Calcutta 

 bazar ; the former never. 



859. CEdicnemus crepitans; (E. indicus, Salvadori, Atti 

 Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. 1866, torn. viii. [Cf. ' Ibis/ 1866, p. 415.) 

 Not very uncommon. 



861. Dromas ardeola. 



It was not only from the consideration of the plumage of im- 

 maturity that I concluded this remarkable bird to be akin to the 

 Terns (J. A. S. B. xxi. p. 352). Prof. Schlegel, it appears, holds 

 to the same opinion ; as does also Mr. E. L. Layard, who was 

 familiar with the living bird (Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1854, xiv. 

 p. 270). It seems to me to bear that relationship to the Terns 

 which Phcenicopterus does to the Geese, and to be allied neither 

 to Esacus nor Anastomus. An egg sent to me as that of this 

 species by Mr.E.L. Layard was very Tern-like; but, according to 

 Dr. Heuglin, the Dromas " breeds socially, in June and July, in 

 deep holes, made by itself, on sandy islands " (Ibis, 1859, p. 346) . 



862. H^MATOPUs osTREALEGUS, accordiug to Mr. Swinhoe 

 (P. Z. S. 1863, p. 310), should be Hamatopus longirostris, Gray. 



Among the characters assigned to the Gniidce, Dr. Jerdon re- 

 marks (vol. iii. p. 661) that "the tracheae are elongated, enter 

 the lidge of the sternum, and are convoluted within it." This 

 is true of Grus and of the scarcely separable Anthropoides, but 

 not of Balearica. In the latter form the usual " sterno-tracheal " 

 muscles are attached to the first pair of true ribs, and the trachea 

 does not enter the keel of the sternum. 



864. Grus leucogeranus. 



Dr. Jerdon lately wrote from Hansi, "A first-rate bird-catcher 

 has assured me that a large white Crane came here every year, 

 which he called the Chini Kulong [Chinese Crane], evidently 

 G. leucogeranus J' I have since heard of one obtained in Oude, 

 which is now in the Museum at Lucknow. 



868. Gallinago nemoricola was only once obtained by me 

 in the Calcutta provision-bazar. The same remark applies to 

 Chatusia flavipes, Phalaropusfulicarius, and Pseuduscolopax semi- 

 pahnatus. One of the large eastern species of Gallinago is errone- 



