10 Lieut. H. R. Kelham on 



irides dark brown ; forehead, lores, ear-coverts, and streak 

 below eyes blaek ; spot on each side of forehead, the chin, 

 throat, abdomen, margins of inner webs of the primaries, 

 white; upper parts hair-brown, tinged with rufous, parti- 

 cularly on the head and neck ; a broad band round the upper 

 part of the breast bright rufous." 



-^GIALITIS MOXGOLICA (Pall.). 



Frequents the coasts during the north-east monsoon. On 

 23rd November I shot one out of a flock on the shores of Pulo 

 Battam, near Singapore. Length barely 8 inches, tarsus 1^,|, 

 beak at front | ; upper parts dull brown, tinged, particularly 

 on the wing-coverts, with rufous ; the forehead and under- 

 parts white, with a rufous tinge, deepest on the breast. It is 

 rather like, but smaller than, jE. yeoffroyi. 



-^GIALITIS DUBIA (Scop.) . 



On 23rd Noviember, 1879, I shot a specimen of this small 

 Ringed Plover out of a party of five on the sandy strand 

 bordering Pulo Battam. At first I thought it was JE. mi- 

 nuta ; but that bird has the basal half of the beak yellow, 

 while in this the whole of it is black. 



I shot another during November on the parade-ground at 

 Tanglin, Singapore. 



LOBIVANELLUS ATROXUCHALIS, Blyth. 



The Red-wattled Lapwing is common in Perak, and Larut, 

 frequenting the edges of j heels and the swampy valleys in 

 the jungle. I never found a nest ; but they probably breed 

 iu the peninsula, as I saw a pair near Kwala Kangsar, Perak, 

 as late as the first week in May. Earlier in the year I shot 

 several in the neighbourhood of that place, also some few at 

 a jheel near Sengan, lower down the river. 



In my notes is the following passage : — 



" Singapore, 21st November, 1879. This afternoon I shot 

 a few Snipe and Plover in the swampy valley behind our 

 barracks, also put up two Red- wattled Lapwing, one of which 

 I shot. It is exactly like those I used so often to get in 

 Perak ; but here it is a rather rare bird, and one seldom hears 

 its plaintive cry, so well rendered in Dr. Jerdon's work by 



