Vol. XX. -j Campbell, Additions to " H. L. White Collection." Kl. 



1920 J ' JO 



race. Dimensions in millimetres : — Length, 303 ; wing, 141 ; 

 culmen, 33 ; tarsus, 38 (M'Lennan). 



*Actitis hypoleucus, Linnsus. Common Sandpiper. 

 A. h. auntiis. 



One (J, I ?. These and the two following species are all in 

 their usual winter plumage. This Sandpiper was noted twice — 

 13th November, again 13th December. 

 *Glottis glottoides, Vigors. Greenshank. ^ 



(1. nchularis. 



One ?. 



[20/ii/ig. — A creek comes out on the beach a mile and a half 

 from the Mission Station. Curlews [Numenins cyanopiis) and (rreen- 

 shanks were noticed here. Further on a Greenshank was seen 

 on a rock about 40 yards out. A shot caused the bird to fall into 

 the water, and it commenced to swim to sea. One of the boys 

 went after it and caught it about 300 yards out.] 

 *Heteractitis brevipes, Vieillot. Grey-rumped Sandpiper. 

 H. inciviiis hi'cvipes. 



Two cJJ. 



[With this species were observed, on the beach near the Mission 

 Station, 9/11/19, Lesser Golden Plover {Charadriiis fiihiis), Large 

 Sand-Dottrel {OchlJwilyoiniis geoffroyi), Little Stint {Pisobia riifi- 

 collis), Whimbrel {Niimcnius varicoatus), and a large Sandpiper 

 a httle darker and slightly smaller than a Whimbrel, also a Godwit 



{Limosa ?)] 



Glareola orientalis, Leach. Oriental Pratincole. 

 (t. nialdivariim orientalis. 



One cJ, 3 $?. A fine series, with throats mostly in the 

 striated form of plumage. 



[30/1 i/i 9. — High up the side of Lady Peak several birds can 

 be seen hawking after insects disturbed by a raging bush-fire. 

 They are new to me, so I get back to camp for my gun and field- 

 glasses and return. The birds are now hawking over the level 

 country at the base of the Peak. There are about thirty birds, 

 flying very fast, now low along the edge of the fire, at times almost 

 dashing through the flames in their eagerness to secure the dis- 

 turbed insects, then high up in the air amongst billowy clouds 

 of dense smoke, and again low down over the burnt area. Cannot 

 place them at all. At last they come out over the unburnt grass 

 and I get a shot, and bring one down ; it is the Oriental Pratincole. 

 Try two more shots without success, and the birds ascend high 

 up, almost out of sight, and soar lazily in great circles. After a 

 while they come down again and engage in their mad, rapacious 

 rush. How they can fly so close to the flames and through the 

 smoke and the freshly-burnt tracts without harm I do not know. 

 The heat is so intense as to be almost unbearable at a distance of 

 20 feet ; yet these birds fly, apparently, within f<nir feet of the 

 flames. A number of White-rumped Wood-Swallows and Fairy 

 Martins join, hawking for insect prey high up along the edge of 



