80 BRITISH BIRDS. |vol. ix. 



" eolovir of the liack ; it is doubtful how the shape of the 

 ' ' head appears. This race requires more minutely to be 

 " (examined. 



"It breeds in Iceland, Greenland and possibly Spitsbergen; 

 " perhaps also the north-west Norwegian Ringed Plover 

 " belongs to this form." 



Claud B. Ticehxtrst. 



[We had not seen Herr Schioler's paper at the time we went to 

 press with the article in question. We have not yet had an opportunity 

 of examining Swedish examples of the Ringed Plo\er (there seem 

 to be none available in England) and it would l)e useless for us to 

 attempt to discuss Herr Sehioler's eoiiehisions without having 

 examined birds from the typical locality of Charadrius hiaticuJa 

 hiaticula. That two forms are separable is obvious, as mentioned on 

 page 8 [ante), but without further material we cannot-gi\e our opinion 

 as to the ranges and names of these forms, nor as to whether othei- 

 forms are separable. The name intermpdiun of Menetries would appear 

 to refer to diihiti'^ and not to hiatirida {cj. Ihis. 1!)!."). p. 533). — En.s.] 



