CATALOGUE OF CHARADRIFORMES. 61 
CHIONIDID. CHIONIS, Forsi. 
alba (Gm.). Four & skel. Hermite Island. Antarctic Continent, Lat. 
(fhe 
The specimen from the Antarctic Continent was shot by Dr. Gunn of H.M.S. 
Terror. The specimen from Hermite Island, and another from an undetermined 
locality, were also collected during the Antarctic Expedition. 
CHIONARCHUS, Kidder & Coues. 
minor (/uril.). Two. (Head only). Kerguelen Land (Royal Sound, 
February). 
No. 1 was collected by Dr. [now Sir] J. D. Hooker, and noted by him at the time 
as a new species. 
crozettensis, Sharpe. 
DROMADIDZ.. 
DROMAS, Payk. 
ardeola, Payk. Seven. 1 jr. 2 jr. Abyssinia (Bay of Amphila). 
South Africa (Natal). Madagascar. 
No. 4, collected by Salt in 1812 in Amphila Bay, Abyssinia, is the Type of Lrodia 
amphilensis, Salt, Trav. Abyss. Append. iv. pl. lxi. (1814). 
CURSORIUS, Lath. 
gallicus (Gm.). Thirteen. 36,19,4 jr. Canary Islands (Fuertaventura, 
Tarrajal, March ; Punto Carbras, March; Fuineji, March: Lanzarote, 
Arecife, April). Tunis. Syria (Plain of Acre, March). Abyssinia (Tacazze 
River). 
The specimen from Yorkshire (Tristr. Cat. Coll. Birds, p. 22) is not apparently 
now in the Collection. 
somalensis, Shelley. 
rufus, Gould. Three. 1¢. South Africa (Transvaal ; Damaraland). 
coromandelicus (('m.). Ten. ¢,92. Northern India (Mhow, November). 
Southern India (Madras, May, November ; Nellore). 
temmincki, Swuins. Six. 1 jr. South Africa (Transvaal ; Natal). 
ORTYXELUS, Viei//. 
meiffreni (J7ill.). Three. Senegal. 
No. 2, from Senegal, is considered to be the Type of Hemipodius nivosus, Swains. 
(Phil. Mag. Ix. p. 353 (1822) ; id. Zool. Ilustr. iii. pl. elxiii. (1823) ). 
The systematic position of this rare bird, comparatively few specimens of which 
are known, is uncertain, many authorities ranking it with the Hemipodes. 
PLUVIANUS, Viei//. 
egyptius (Linn). Six. 19. Egypt, February, March. West Africa 
(Senegal). Central Africa (Lado, July). 
RHINOPTILUS, Strick/. 
bicinctus (Zemm.). Six. 14, 1 jr. South Africa (Orange Free State, 
Kroonstadt, March). 
bisignatus (Hartl.); hartingi, Sharpe ; cinctus (Heugl.) ; seebohmi, Sharpe. 
chalcopterus (7vmm.). Two. South Africa. 
albofasciatus, Sharpe ( = Cursorius chalcopterus, Temm. Tristr. Cat. Coll. 
Birds, p. 22). Two. 6 jr. South Africa (Ovampoland, Ondonga, 
January ; Damaraland, Otjimbinque, March). 
