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sontliern portions of the Old VVorld. The range of this 

 species extends along the Arctic Circle from Greenland, east- 

 wards through Siberia, to the vicinity of Behring Straits. It 

 has been known to breed as far north as the 80th parallel, and 

 it has reared its young in Greenland and Iceland, In winter 

 it migrates from high latitudes towards the south, but it is 

 resident in the British Isles, France, Holland, and Central 

 Europe generally, though Mr. HoAvard Saunders speaks of it 

 as rare in extensive inland territory such as Russia. In 

 Southern Europe it is rarer than in the north, though in parts 

 of Portugal it is said to be plentiful. Mr. Seebohm writes of 

 it as common on the Ste|»pes of Astrakhan in the summer 

 months. In Southern Europe and the northern parts of 

 Africa there is a smaller race of this plover, the jEgialitis 

 intermedia of some authors, but which Mr. Saunders scarcely 

 considers of specific distinctness, and accepting this view, the 

 range of the present species would extend through the north 

 of Africa to the Canaries and the island of Maderia. In 

 Central Asia the Ringed Plover does not appear to be 

 plentiful, according to the observations of ornithologists, 

 m that region, but it breeds in Turkestan. From there 

 it has been known to ci'oss over the ranges to Gilgit, 

 to which district it is a rare straggler, w^hile farther 

 south in the Peninsula of India it has only once been 

 obtained, near Delhi. From China I do not find it recorded, 

 that region being inhabited by an allied species jE. placida, 

 Cjrey. Its occurrence at Port Stevens, if it was correctly 

 identified, is very remarkable, as the example must have 

 wandered southward in company with other limicoline birds 

 through the Malay Archipelago, but from what starting-point 

 it is absolutely impossible to conjecture, the species being so 

 rare in Southern Asia. It is more probable, I would surmise, 

 that Gould's bird was the Chinese form, ^E. placida. 



^Egialitis jerdoni. 



(Little Indian Ringed Plovei-.) 



^'jLaUtis minutus, (Pallas), Jerdon, Birds of India, iii., p. 641, (1864). 

 ^malitis jerdoni, Leggc, P.Z.S., 1880, p. 39 ; Ramsay, in part, List Austr. Birds, p. 

 19, (1888). 



As there is evidently a second species of Ringed Plover fonnd in the 

 Papuan region, and doubtless also on the continuous coastline of Northern 

 Australia, I think it advisable to include ^ISgialH'w jerdoni in this paper as a 

 footnote, thus giving it the character of a doubtful species. Dr. Ramsay 

 Myites ine, that since issuing his first list of Australian birds, he has received 

 several specimens of a Ringed Plover from Port Moresby, one of which he 

 sent to Count Salvadori, who has stated that it might be jEgialitis jerdoni^ 



