53 i Mr. L. B. Mouritz on the 



that this form inhabits India and is also found ia Borneo 

 and New Guinea. Specimens with larger dimensions from 

 India are apparently migrants from the north, but in view 

 of the great individual variation in size of these Little 

 Plovers, one cannot always be sure about single winter birds 

 from tropical India. 



vi. On Tringa ochropus. 



It has recently been suggested that the eastern and 

 western forms of the Green Sandpiper are separable, the 

 latter being lighter and smaller. We cannot confirm this; 

 neither can we see the slightest difference in colour, nor 

 is the supposed eastern form larger; on the contrary, we 

 find more large specimens among western .birds — apart from 

 a giant from the Amambara Creek, Niger, W. Africa — than 

 among the eastern ones, but the majority show the same 

 dimensions. 



We must therefore regard Tringa ochropus assami Mathews 

 (Austral. Av. Rec. i. p. 188, 1913, Assam, and B. Austr. iii. 

 ]). 203) as a synonym of T. ochropus. 



XXVI. — Notes on the Ornithologij of the Matopo District, 

 Southern Rhodesia. Part II. * By L. Beresford 

 Mouritz, M.B.O.U., M.S.A.O.U. 



(Text-figure 8.) 



118. j Eiparia cincta. Banded Sand-Martin. 



An uncommon summer visitor, and very local in its 

 distribution. I first met with tliis Sand-Martin in the 

 district on November 30, 1910, when four or five were 

 flitting about some old shafts and trenches between the 

 Northern Star and Kimono Mines. In 1912 I saw one, 

 flying in company with two Rufous-breasted Swallows, close 

 to the Terminus Hotel, on January 21, and again met with 

 it in this locality on March 10, whilst at the end of January 

 I met with the species again on Lucydale farm. These 

 * For Part I. see ' Ibis,' 1915. pp. 18.5-216. 



