180 Mr. H. Seebohm on the 



and December in his collection. Unfortunately the Tweed- 

 dale collection is at present inaccessible, but it seems probable 

 that when the necessary material falls into the hands of a 

 competent ornithologist, a great slaughter of species must 

 take place. So far as I have been able to ascertain from 

 the limited material at my disposal, it appears that the Indo- 

 Malayan Hemipode was originally described by Scopoli in 

 1786, from an example figured by Sonnerat, obtained in the 

 island of Luzon, where it was afterwards found by Mr. 

 Everett, Lord Tweeddale's collector in the Philippine Islands. 

 Scopoli, with the fatal genius for blundering so often found 

 in compilers, assumed that Sonnerat did not know a Quail 

 from an Oriole, and named the species Oriolus ocellatus. In 

 1823 Temminck rediscovered the species in a collection from 

 Java, and named it Hemipodius puynax. In India and Burma 

 it has been described over and over again : in 1832 by Sykes 

 as Hemipodius taigoor ; in 1837 by Hodgson as Hemipodius 

 plumbipes ; and afterwards by Blyth, Eyton, and others under 

 various names. In 1865 Swinhoe described it from Formosa 

 as Turnix rostrata, and a further search will doubtless swell 

 the list of synonyms considerably more — though it is possible 

 that one or two of the names may be retained in a trinomial 

 capacity, to indicate climatic races. 



31. fulica atba. 



32. Gallinula chloeopus. 



33. Charadrius fulvus. 



The Eastern Golden Plover is probably only seen in spring 

 and autumn on migration. 



34. TOTANUS BREVIPES. 



The example sent belongs to the Asiatic, and not to the 

 American form of this species. The tarsus is scutellated at 

 the back ; the nasal groove extends for only half the length 

 of the bill, and the belly is unspotted white. It is, of course, 

 only seen on the Loo-choo Islands on migration. 



35. Ardea sacra. 



An example of a Reef Hei'on sent by Mr. Pryer does 



