208 Mr. J. E. Harting on rare 



proved to be ^. yeoffroyi (Wagl.) as pointed out by Mr. BIyth . 

 (Ibis, 1867, p. 163). This rectification Mr. Tristram sub- 

 sequently acknowledged (Ibis, 1868, p. 323) at the same time 

 adding, "To my former list (P. Z. S. 186^, p. 450) I must now 

 add the true Charadrius asiaticus of Pallas, of which I shot a 

 specimen on the shore near Acre in winter, where C.pyrrhothorax 

 was pretty common, and, especially near the Kishon, generally in 

 company with larger flocks of the universal ^yialites cantianus." 



Riippell does not include the present species in his * Syste- 

 matische Ubersicht der Vogel Nord-Ost Afrika's ; ' but Dr. von 

 Heuglin states {ut supra) that it is found in winter on the 

 Mediterranean and Red-Sea shores. 



Mr. Blanford, who accompanied the late expedition to Abys- 

 sinia, brought home two young birds which he procured in that 

 country, and kindly forwarded for my inspection. After a 

 careful examination, I have no hesitation in pronouncing them 

 to be the young of E. asiaticus. They were procured in August 

 1868 — one at Massowa, the other at Rairo in Habab, at an ele- 

 vation of 3000 feet above the sea-level, where the species was 

 found in flocks on open grassy ground. In their general ap- 

 pearance they much resemble the young of E. morinellus, but 

 differ in having a longer bill, the forehead white, the shafts of 

 the primaries mesially white, the axillaries white. In E. mori- 

 nellus, the forehead is always mottled, the shaft of the jirst 

 primary only white, the axillaries pale bufl^. In the young of 

 E. veredus, to which I shall refer more particularly hereafter, 

 although the forehead is white or buff'y-white, the shafts of the 

 first two primaries are white, the axillaries smoke-grey. jE. 

 yeoffroyi possesses diff^erent characters, again, as also does y®. 

 monyolicus, which serve to distinguish both these from the young 

 birds obtained by Mr. Blanford. 



Eudromias asiaticus is included by Mr. Layard in his 'Birds 

 of South Africa,' specimens having been procured near Coles- 

 berg. From this locality Mr. Arnot forwarded three of these 

 birds to Mr. Layard with a note to the eff"ect that they were 

 found together in flocks of fifteen or twenty, very far away from 

 water ; they were scarce, and only seen after showers of rain, 

 which bring out small Coleoptera and animal life of that sort, on 

 which they seem to feed, and get enormously fat. 



