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Von Heughlin being the only naturalist who, 1 find, records 

 it from the Somauli District. It will thus be seen that it has 

 a more northerly range than its larger congener, and does 

 not migrate so far south, so far as Africa is concerned. 



30. ^GIALITIS MASTERSI. 



(Master's Sandplover). 



^'Egialltls inastcrsi, Ramsuy, P.Z.S., New Soiitli Wales, vol. i., p. 

 135, List y^ustr. B., p. 19, (1888). 



This interesting Sandplover, which is an addition to Austrahan 

 avi-fauna made by Dr. Ramsay loc. cit., is an inhabitant of 

 the north coasts of the continent and south of New Guinea, 

 affecting likewise in all probability the islands of Torres 

 Straits. The localities from which it is recorded on the north 

 coast are the Gulf of Carpentaria and Rockingham Bay, and 

 its presence may no doubt be looked for farther south on the 

 Queensland coast. 



31. ^GIALITIS BICINCTA. 



(Doublo-banded Dotterel). 



Charadrlus blcincta, Jard. & Selby, 111. Orn., vol. i., })1. 28. 

 Ochtliodromus biclnctus, (Jard. & Selby), Gould, Haudb. B. of 



Austr., ii., p. 238, (186.5). 

 JEqialitis bicincta, (Jard. & Selby), Ramsav, List Austr. B., p. 19, 



(1888). 



Tile Double-banded Dotterel, or Sandplover, is one of the 

 most puzzling of our shore migrants, appearing in Tasmania 

 at the opposite season of the year to most members of its 

 family. It is apparently a southern breeder wandering as a 

 local Australian migrant to the northern portions of the 

 continent. Judging by what Sir W. Buller writes of it in 

 his second edition of the " Birds of New Zealand," it is a 

 resident species there, being common on the shores of both 

 islands, and commencing to breed in August. A migration to 

 Tasmania probably from more northern parts of Australia, 

 and possibly in p;vrt from New Zealand, appears to take place 

 towards the latter end of summer, and after the months of 

 April and May the species is plentiful in some of the inland 

 districts, as well as on the coasts. A favourite locality for the 

 Double-banded Sandplover is about the Salt Plains near 

 Tunbridge, and it may be met with on the sandy foreshores 

 of many of the inlets and bays in the south of the island. 

 Messrs. Atkinson and Holden inform me that it is common 

 on the north coast and in the eastern islands of the Straits 



