THE IBIS. 



FIFTH SERIES. 



No. II. APRIL 1883. 



XI. — On the Totanus haughtoni of Armstrong. 

 By J. E. Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



(Plate IV.) 



Novelties among the Limicoke are so rarely met with now- 

 a-days, that the acquisition of a new species is a matter of 

 no little interest. 



I have lately had an opportunity of examining two speci- 

 mens of a Sandpiper (preserved in the Museum of Trinity 

 College, Dublin) which were procured by Dr. Armstrong 

 near Amherst in British Burmah in January 1877, and to 

 which (when describing other specimens previously obtained 

 by him in December 1875 near the mouth of the Rangoon 

 river) he gave the name of Totanus haughtoni {' Stray Fea- 

 thers/ vol. iv. p. 344, 1876). 



Mr. Hume, who procured another specimen of this bird in 

 the Calcutta market in December 1877, has described it under 

 the name of Pseudototanus haughtoni [' Stray Feathers,' 

 vol. vii. p. 488, 1878), and in his ' Game-Birds of India' has 

 given a more detailed account of it, with a coloured plate, 

 which, prepared without his supervision and unseen by him 



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