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Gall.' iii. p. 631, together with the account and portrait of the 

 same, under the terra H. maculatus, in Yieillot, Gal. des Ois. iv. 

 p. 5, pi. 217 (1834) . The portrait has yellow bill and legs and a 

 red nuchal collar, and certainly seems to represent our species 

 in nuptial dress ; but the description gives a smaller bird, and 

 speaks of the sexes as alike. It says that the specimens Avere 

 brought from New Holland ; but we searched Gould's ' Birds 

 of Australia ' in vain for such a species. However, we learn 

 from Temminck that three specimens of his bird are in the 

 galleries of the museum at Paris, with which I presume the 

 authorities have compared it ; so I suppose w^e must give M. 

 Verreaux the credit of the identification, and adopt ^^ieillot's 

 name. Mr. Gould asserted to me that he knew no such bird 

 from Australia. 



79. Great Bustard. Otis tarda, L. 



On the 2nd May we found a live female Bustard in the 

 market. My companion purchased it for Mr. Crasemann's 

 aviary ; but it did not live many days. I met no other. 



80. H.arting's Sand-plover. ^gialitis placida, Gray. 



A pair of these and a chick are figured in the MS. illustra- 

 tions. The chick is in down, but is coloured about the face 

 and breast, as the adult in spring, which I think must be a 

 mistake. I did not see the bird at Chefoo. It is simply 

 named in the drawing the Sha-kin or Sand-bird. 



81. Chinese Oystercatcher. Hamatopus oscidans, 

 Swinh. 



On the 8tli May Mr. Campbell, of the Lighthouse, sent me 

 a female Oystercatcher, with the information that it was one 

 of a pair that came to feed on the mud flats of his island when 

 the tide was low. They came from and returned to North 

 Island, a rock some miles to seaward. He promised to look 

 out for its mate. 



The bird received was alive, but had its wing badly broken 

 at the shoulder. 



Length 19'5. Wing 10"6, reaching -1 short of fail-tip, 1-5 

 longer than tertiaries ; first quill the longest. Tail 4'65, of 



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