116 BIRDS FROM 
Totanus glareola (L.). 
Tringa glareola Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. X, I, 1758, p. 149. 
Rhyacophilus glareola, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. XXIV, 1896, p. 491. 
Nes, 500, 501, QQ, Moeara Karang, Batavia, 12 August 1908. 
— 502, Q, Pésing near Batavia, 13 August 1908. 
— 718, 714, Qo, Djélambar, Batavia, 9 November 1908. 
Malay name: tilil; javanese name: trilil, 
Numenius arquata madagascariensis (L.). 
Scolopax madagascariensis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. XII, I, 1766, p. 242. 
Numenius arquatus lineatus, Seebohm, Geogr. distr. Charadriidae, 
1888, p. 324. 
Numenius arquatus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. XXIV, 1896, p. 340 
(partim). 
Nes, 761, 762, oO, shore near Kramat, Batavia, 1 De- 
cember and 30° November 1908. 
Malay name: patok bessie. 
These two birds, as well as seven other specimens from 
Java in the collection of the Leyden Museum, agree in 
every respect with two examples from Madagascar and one 
from Nepal in the same collection, in having the longi- 
tudinal streaks on the foreneck and breast very narrow, 
the axillaries pure white, only rarely with a black shaft- 
stripe at the distal end and in having rump and upper 
tailcoverts pure white, the latter having sometimes narrow 
black shaft-streaks. Also the under tailcoverts are pure 
white, or with ‘only very narrow black shaft-streaks. Spe- 
cimens from South-eastern Africa (Delagoa Bay) and from 
the Cape Colony resemble specimens from the above-named 
localities, The curlews from all the above-named localities 
are wintering birds of the form which breeds in Siberia 
and which differs from the European curlew by the given 
characters. The first name of the Siberian curlew is Sco- 
lopax madagascariensis L., 1766, named after Brisson’s 
Courly de Madagascar, Numenius madagascariensis (Ornith. 
V, 1760, p. 321, pl. 28), a young specimen from Mada- 
gascar. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXII. 
