Australian limicol^. 981 



hi some of the Malay Islands, for I have examined a specimen 

 in the British Museum from the island of Bourn. 



43. Glareola orientalis. 



(Eastern Pratincole) . 



Glareola orientalis^ Leach, Tr. Z.S., xiii., p. 132, pi. 13, figs. 1, 2, 

 (1821) ; Gould, Handb. B. of Austr., ii., p. 245, (1865) ; Legge, ' 

 B. of Ceylon, p. 980, (1880-2) ; Ramsay, List Austr. B., p. 20, 

 (1888). 



This fine Swallow-Plover is a bird of wide range, and 

 though resident in sundry locaUties throughout its habitat, is 

 nevertheless a bird of migratory, or perhaps more strictly of 

 a wandering nature, suddenly appearing in districts where it 

 has not hitherto been seen. I met with it under these con- 

 ditions on the Northern Province of Ceylon in July, 1875, 

 and then added it to the avi-fauna of that island. Its 

 northern limit, according to the testimony of the celebrated 

 Russian traveller and naturalist, Prjevalsky, is the northern 

 bend of the Hoangho River, where it ranges southwards 

 through Mongolia and China to Formosa, the Philippines 

 (Negros), Java, Borneo, Timor, and thence to the coast of 

 Australia. It is common in Pegu, where it has been found 

 breeding, and occurs in more or less numbers in Tennasserim, 

 the Malay Peninsula, the Andaman, and Nicobar Islands, and 

 Penang. In India it appears to be a cold-weather visitant to 

 the eastern side of the Peninsula, and is rare in Oudh, the 

 North West Provinces, and Sindh. During its visits to the 

 island of Ceylon from the mainland of India it evidently 

 breeds there, as I found it accompanied by young on the 

 shores of one of the great irrigation " tanks " in the Trinco- 

 malie Dristrict. 



To our continent it is evidently a straggler, being recorded 

 by Dr. Ramsay from four localities, viz., Cape York, 

 Rockingham Bay, Wide Bay, and the colony of New South 

 Wales. 



Fam. KaeznatopodldaB. 



44. HiEMATOPUS L0NG1E0STRI8. 



(White-breasted Oyster Catcher). 



Hcematopus lovgirostris, Vieill, 2nd edition Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 

 Nat. vol. XV., p. 440 ; Gould, Handb. B. of Austr., ii., p. 215, 

 (1865) ; Ramsay, List Austr. B., p. 19, (1888). 



This handsome Oyster Catcher is resident almost along the 

 whole shore-line of Australia and Tasmania, extending also 

 southwards to New Zealand and the Chatham Islands. It is 



