390 Mr. J. E. Halting on rare 



in the month of May in full summer plumage. Dr. Jerdon 

 obtained it "in the Carnatic, at Madras, on the Malabar coast, 

 and elsewhere also, but moi-e rarely, and seldom far inland." 



I am indebted to Mr. Swinhoe for the loan of specimens from 

 Shanghai and Hainan in various stages of plumage. One of 

 these, apparently in full summer-dress, was procured at Shan- 

 ghai in May. It corresponds in every way with the descriptions 

 given by Pallas, Temminck, and Middendorff, and with the 

 plates of the latter and Gould. Mr. Swinhoe is inclined to 

 think that it may be found in Northern Japan* (Ibis, 1863, 

 p. 444). Specimens from the Philippines, brought home by 

 Mr. Cuming, are in the British Museum. One of these, in 

 summer plumage, accords with the usual Indian type, and has 

 the forehead black and white. 



The late Lieut. Beavan [ut supra) included it with some hesi- 

 tation in his " Avifauna of the Andaman Islands," referring to 

 it as the Lesser Sand-Plover, jE. pyrrhothorax (Temui.), but 

 erroneously adding as a synonym C. leschenaulti, Less. 



The Charadrius cantianus of Horsfield, from Java, is jE. mon- 

 golicus in winter plumage. It appears to be pretty generally 

 distributed throughout the Malay Archipelago ; Mr. Wallace 

 brought home some skins from several of the islands, including 

 the Aru group. I have already stated my reasons for believing 

 that Hiaticula inornata, Grould, like Horsiield's C. cantianus, is 

 the present species in winter dress. If the bird from New 

 Guinea, referred to by Mr. G. R. Gray as Charadrius inor- 

 natus {ut supra), be identical with the bird which Mr. Gould 

 showed me as his inornata, then we may add, to the list of lo- 

 calities for ^. mongolicus. New Guinea t and Oomago Island, 

 Torres Straits. The southernmost limit at present recorded for 

 this species is Port Essington, in North Australia. Here it 



* Capt. Blakiston has in fact included it amongst the Birds of Northern 

 Japan (Ibis, 18G2, p. 330), but evidently in error, as appears by his note, 

 which is as follows : — " A female specimen of the Eastern Golden Plover, 

 was shot in September." The species to which he referred was, of coiu:se, 

 C. longipes. 



t Since writing this I have seen several examples from New Guinea in 

 the Levden Museum. 



