502 Mr. N. B. Kinneur on the Birds coUecled [Ibis, 



Sterna hirundo tibetaua iSiiunders. 



Ui) $ 24.G.2 1 Tingri 11,000 ft. 



The Tibetan nice ot" the Common Tern was reported to be 

 abundant on all streams and lakes visited by the Tibet Mission 

 in 1904. Farther west, Dr. Abbott met with it at the Tso 

 Morari Lake, Ladak, 15,000 ft., in July, and Henderson says 

 it breeds at Gohra at 16,000 ft. Arnold Pike procured two 

 specimens in the beginning of July at Horpa Tso, lat. N. 

 31° 35', long. E. 81° 0', as high as 17,285 ft. 



[Generally distributed wherever there are rivers on the 

 plains. Seen fishing at the exit of a river from a glacier at 

 1G,000 ft. north of Mt. Everest.— A. F.R. W.j 



Cirrepedesmus mongolicus atrifrons (Wagler). 



151 o 23.6.21 Tingri 14,000 ft. 



Neither Colonel Walton nor Blanford met with this Plover 

 in Tibet or Sikkim, and little seems to be known of its 

 distribution on the southern limit of its breedino-ranoe. 

 Colonel Bailey found a Plover nesting at Tangla at an 

 elevation of 15,000 ft., which he doubtfully identified with 

 this bird, and in the National (yoUection there are two skins 

 obtained by Mandelli's native collectors labelled "Tibet 1876.'^ 

 Where exactly Mandelli's men collected, it is impossible to 

 say, but probably near the Sikkim Frontier. Ten miles 

 north-west of Rakas Tal in western Tibet, a little north of 

 the Kuniaon border, Dr. T. G. Longstaff procured three speci- 

 mens (a male, female and downy chick) at 15,000 ft., and on 

 the label of the male he notes "' a few pairs found breeding, 

 also [)robably breeding at Tirthipasi, W. Tibet." Henderson 

 obtained a male at Sagra, Ladak, in August at 16,000 ft., and 

 in the same country A. L. Adams saw old birds and young of 

 what he calls the "rufous-breasted dottrel" {C.leschenaidti), 

 but probably this species. Near the Tso Morari Lake 

 M. Babault saw old and young in Julj^ Much farther 

 north, in western Tibet, Arnold Pike met with this Plover 

 in June near Horpa Tso at 17,000 ft. 



[Breeding in June on shingly terraces, 15,000-16,000 ft. — 

 A. F. II. W.] 



