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to learn that I went to Fateligarli again this year, on 

 April 4th, and obtained eggs o£ the following species : — 



2 Skimmer. Rhynchops aibicollis. 

 G Large River Tern. Sterna seena. 



3 Blaclv-bellied Tern. Sterna melanogaster. 

 3 Little Swallow Plover. Glareola lactea. 



27 Spur-winged Plover. Hopio]) terns ventralis. 

 3 Lesser Ringed Plover, ^gia/itis dubia. 

 2 Great Indian Stone-Plover. Esacus recurvirostris. 

 All the few eggs were fresh, except one clutch (3 !) of 

 Hoplopterus ventralis and the clutch of Esacus recurvirostris. 

 The Ganges had shifted its course nearly \ mile, and I 

 only found one island. In consequence the birds bred on the 

 peninsulas. 



On the one island mentioned I found a nest of Hoplopterus 

 ventralis with 5 fresh eggs. While drifting down the stream 

 1 saw a pair of Indian Coursers [Cursorius coromandelicus) 

 running along the edge of the water. I shot one ($),so 

 that I am sure of the identity of the bird. Is this not rather 

 a curious locality for a Courser ? 



Yours &c., 



William Jesse. 

 La Martmiere College, Luckuow, India, 

 May 1st, ]899. 



Sirs,— On the 23rd of last month (April 1899) a fine 

 kvaale s]^ecia\en of Caprimulg us (egyptius (Licht.) was brought 

 to me, in the flesh, by a friend of mine who had shot it 

 himself that morning near Palermo. 



This is apparently the second undoubted instance of the 

 occurrence of this species in Sicily and the Italian Kingdom, 

 the first being that of an example obtained at Modica, near 

 Syracuse, in December 1879, which specimen is now in the 

 Royal Zoological Museum at Florence (Giglioli, Avif. Italica, 

 1886, p. 197). 



Prof. Doderlein (Avif. Mod. e Sicil. p. 344) also alludes 

 to a bird, which may have been of this species, as having 

 been ol)tained near Girgenti ; but no proper identification 



