130 Records of the Indian Museum. [VoL. XVIII, 
The specimen killed in May is in an interesting stage of plum- 
age, the breast being partly red and the plumage above also in 
rather more than half summer plumage. The two birds killed in 
winter are, of course, in winter plumage. 
[Feeding in large flocks at the edge of the Hamun in December. 
NA] 
50. Totanus glareola (Linn.). (1461). 
1905. Totanus glareola, Cumming, op. cit., p. 695. 
O. No. 24730; ? no sex or date. 
@. ,, 24856; Khwaja Ahmed, 5.5.05. 
9.-,, 24857. Nasratabad, 7.5.05: 
51. Totanus totanus eurhinus, Oberholser. (1455). 
oO. No. 24731; Seistan, Jan. 04, no sex. 
O. 5B) 24732; ” 7-1.04. ” 
On bs, © 247335 sgt) 0 date orsex. 
The Eastern form breeding from the Himalayas to Eastern 
Siberia has been separated as a geographical race under the name 
of eurhinus by Oberholser (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXII, p. 208; 
1900) on the grounds of its greater size. He gives the average 
size for his new sub-species as follows: wing 163 mm., culmen 
46°6 mm., and tarsus 47°2 mm. 
The three specimens noted above have the wings 157-165 
mm., bills 43 to 45 mm., and tarsi 52 to 55 mm. They must all 
therefore be accredited to the Eastern rather than to the Western 
form. Specimens of both birds and eggs obtained in Tibet fully 
bear out Oberholser’s diagnosis of eurhinus. 
52. Machetes pugnax, Linn. (1468). 
o. No. 24734; Shaharistan, Seistan, 1.3.03, not sexed. 
The wing measures 167 mm., large for a female and small for 
a male, but probably the latter not yet adult. 
53. Tringa alpina alpina (Linn.). (1478). 
o@. No. 25474; Lab-i-Baring, 8.12.18. 
ALR 525475 s 7 SE2ES. 
OP.) 5 25470); uf BBN 6278 oe 
O.| 430125403) i 132.06. 
The wings of these four specimens vary from 108 to II5 mm. 
so that they must belong to the smaller Western sub-species rather 
than to the larger Eastern one. 
54. Grus grus (Linn.). (1407). 
oO. No. 24728; Khwaja Ali, Feb. 03. 
This specimen is that of a not quite adult bird with the crown 
of the head still fairly well covered with feathers as in the young 
bird. 
