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species of Mgialitis above enumerated." As he has given a full 

 description and measurements, there is no difficulty in iden- 

 tifying it ; and I have no hesitation therefore in saying that 

 it is the A^gialitis hartingi of Swinhoe, figured and described 

 in the ' Proceedings ' of the Zoological Society for 1870, p. 136, 

 pi. xii. One of the peculiarities of this species is that the 

 shafts of all the primaries are of a uniform hair-brown colour, 

 which distinguishes it at once from others of the genus ; the 

 rectrices also are barred in a remarkable manner ; and both 

 these characters are pointed out by Mr. Hume. In other 

 respects, as regards colour, it comes very close to JE. hiaticula, 

 but is a larger bird, with the bill nearly twice as long, much 

 longer tarsi and toes, and a slight web between the middle 

 and outer toes, as in JE. semipalmata of the New World. 



I should not be surprised to learn that this is also the 

 Charadrius longipes* of Pere David (Nouv. Archiv. 1867, 

 Bulletin, p. 38), obtained at Pekin, and described as "close 

 to C. hiaticula, but with longer legs." 



Mr. Swinhoe, I observe, has referred Pere David's bird, 

 with hesitation, to C. hiaticula (P.Z.S. 1871, p. 404) ; but as he 

 mentions no other instance of the occurrence of our Euro- 

 pean bird in China, I should doubt if it is found there, espe- 

 cially as it is unknown in India and the Malay peninsula. 



I am aware that Heuglin, in his ' Ornithologie Nordost- 

 Afrikas/ p. 1027, cites amongst the localities for C. hiaticula 

 " the Himalayas," and, " during the migration, western and 

 southern Asia ; " but he does not say upon what authority this 

 statement is made. Jerdon does not notice the species in his 

 'Birds of India;' neither does Mr. Holdsworth include it in 

 his recently published " Catalogue of the Birds of Ceylon " 

 (P.Z.S. 1872, pp. 404-183). I can only suppose that, 

 as regards the Himalayas, Heuglin may have relied upon 

 an observation by Mr. Blyth, who in a commentary upon 

 Jerdon's ' Birds of India/ published in ' The Ibis ' for 1867, 

 adds to Dr. Jerdon's list thus (p. 165) : — "^Egialites hia- 



* Nee C. longipes, Temm. & Schleg., qui fulvus, Gmelin ; nee C. longipes, 

 Heuglin, qui C. pecuarius, Temm. 



