Mr. Layard's ' Birds of South Africa.' 255 



the accompanying representation of it by Mr. Wolf will not be 

 unacceptable to ornithologists. The drawing is taken from a 

 Natal specimen belonging to the Museum at King's Lynn. 



Glareola pratincola (Linn.). Collared Pratincole. 



This species is not included in Mr. Layard's Catalogue ; but 

 a single example of it was transmitted to me from Natal by 

 Mr. Ayres, as previously recorded in this Journal (1863, 

 p. 329). 



558. HoPLOPTERUs ARMATUs, Jard. & Selby. Black-and- 

 white Spur- wing Plover. 



559. HoPLOPTERUS ALBiCEPs (Tcmm.). 



Charadrius albiceps of Temminck and Laugier (PI. Col. 526) 

 is identical with Hoplopterus armatus of Jardine and Selby (111. 

 Orn. pi. 54), and therefore distinct from Vanellus albiceps 

 Gould (P. Z. S. 1834, p. 45), [Lobivanellus albiceps, Strickl. 

 P. Z. S. 1841, p. 33; Sarciophorus albiceps, Praser, Zool. Typ. 

 pi. 64), with which Mr, Layard has identified it. 



567. iEaiALiTES hiaticula (Linn.). Common Ringed 

 Plover. 



iEaiALiTES iNTERMEDius (Meuetrics). Litermediate Ringed 

 Plover. 



I am desirous of calling attention to a note in ' The Ibis' for 

 1865 (p. 465, note), from which it seems that the Ringed 

 Plover from Natal, recorded by me (Ibis, 1860, p. 218) under 

 the name of ^gialites hiaticula, agrees with the peculiar race 

 which seems to have been first observed in England by Mr. G. 

 D. Rowley, who met with it near Brighton (Ibis, 1860, p. 101), 

 and which is believed to be identical with that to which Me- 

 netries assigned the specific name of intermeditis. 



575. Balearica regulorum (Licht.). Southern Crowned 

 Crane. 



by Weraer (Atl. Ois. d'Eur.), thoupli uudor the name of G, torqiuda (sc. 

 pratincola). It has recently teen figured, but on a vei"y small scale, by 

 l)r. Fritsch (Vog. Em-, tab. 33. figs. 9, 10) as G. pallasi. We have been 

 unable to find the plate mentioned by Dr. Bree (B. Eur. iv. pp. 1, 3), wiio 

 does not himself figure it, as having been given by Pallas. — Ed.] 



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