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the north." I take this to be the ordinary C. alpinus ; but it 

 is not easy to make out species of Tringa without actual 

 handhng of specimens. 



138. Ardea cinerea, L. 

 Immature specimen received. 



139. Egretta modesta, G. R. Gray, 



An Egret in winter plumage, with yellow bill, like our 

 China bird. 



140. Ardetta eurhythma, Swinh. 

 A female sent. 



" I have four specimens only, two females alike, of which 

 I send you one. A male of this species, I think, almost cer- 

 tainly, has a pure cinnamon back. Another male, evidently 

 another species, general colour of the large common Bittern, 

 bill not so stout as other species, and legs feathered to knee- 

 joint.''' This may be Gorsachius melanolophus (Raffles) . 



141. Gallixula chloropus, L. 



" Compared with English specimens " [Blakiston] . 



142. Porzana exquisita, Swinh. Ibis, 1875, p. 135, pi. iii.* 

 Blakiston sends a female, and notes that "the male is just 



the same.^' 



He notes that he has another species, of which he says, 

 " Another species, long toes, size about the same, bill larger. 

 This may be the Pigmy Crake." 



From Kamtchatka he has " Anser segetum, Spatula cly- 

 peata, Anas crecca, A. falcata, A. penelope, Chmgula histri- 

 onica, and Somateria dispar ; also Phaleris cristatella (Pall.), 

 Mormon cirrhatum (Pall.), Thalassidroma furcata (Gm.), and 

 Sterna ? " The last he sends a bit of ; but it is such a frag- 

 ment I cannot make it out. 



He also notes from Kamtchatka " Larus ridibundus and 

 L, niveus." 



* [First described in 1873. Cf. Swinh. Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, xii. 

 p. 376.— Ed.] 



