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south of Malacca ; and of these one showed considerable signs 

 of the breeding- plumage, its breast being much blotched with 

 black. During October, November, and December some 

 may always be shot on the shores of Pulo Ool)in, Pulo 

 Nongsa, and the other rock-girt islands near Singapore ; a 

 female which I shot off Pulo Oobin was sitting on an isolated 

 rock in company with a large flock of Ringed Plover [jEgialitis 

 geojfroyi). 



Charadrius fulvus, Gm. 



The Eastern Golden Plover is very plentiful during the 

 north-east monsoon, but goes north in April to breed, return- 

 ing again to the south of the peninsula towards the end of 

 September. In Perak, during January and February, I found 

 them in large flocks on the edges of all the jheels, particu- 

 larly those in the neighbourhood of Kota Lama, Saiyong, 

 and Sengan ; but they got scarcer in March. The 8th April 

 was the latest date on which I shot one, which, in company 

 with another, was sitting on a sand-bank in the middle of the 

 Perak river ; it had almost fully assumed the black breast of 

 the breeding-season. In 1879, while stationed at Singapore, 

 as late as 13th April a Malay fisherman brought me a large 

 cage full of Terns and shore-birds, which he had netted on 

 the sands near the mouth of the Moar river ; and among them 

 were several Golden Plovers, all in various stages of the 

 breeding-plumage ; so probably they nest somewhere towards 

 the north of the peninsula, though in Singapore and the 

 south they are most certainly migratory. 



In Singapore, though no very large bags were to be made, 

 they often, during October, afforded me a capital afternoon's 

 sport. In the neighbourhood of Tanglin the best places for 

 them were the Chinamen s gardens and the cultivated hills 

 near Cluny ; but there Avas also good ground near Changie, 

 at Galang, and on the Trafalgar estate. 



When shot at some distance inland they are very good 

 eating ; but a coast diet spoils them for the table : some I shot 

 on the sea-shore at Panaga, in Province Welleslcy, were quite 

 uneatable, having a strong, fishy, decayed-seaweed kind of 

 flavour. 



