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and darted down upon their prey within a few yards of the spot 
upon which I stood. 
Pelican, Pelecanus conspicillatus, Temm.—Only one seen, and 
a magnificent bird it looked as it sat in solitary grandeur far out 
on the coral flats, its black and white plumage most conspicuous 
in the bright sun. I was anxious to obtain it, but it was very 
wary, and would not permit me to approach within half a 
mile of it. 
Little Cormorant, Phalacrocorax melanoleucus, Vieill.—Many 
seen flying over the island. 
Amongst the scrub there were Honey-eaters, Flycatchers, 
two kinds of Kingfishers, and several other species unknown to 
me; and from one of the trees I shot a pair of large handsome 
Doves. 
In addition to the shore birds enumerated above, three or 
four examples were shot of a bird which to me appeared to be 
identical with the European Dunlin, Tinga variabilis. They 
were in summer dress. I was surprised to find so many of these 
birds still in their summer plumage at this time of year, when 
I should have imagined they would have been in their winter 
dress. 
[So far as we are aware, the Dunlin has not been met with 
in Australia, but occurring as it does in Borneo (Miiller) and 
Java (Kuhl and Van Hasselt), whence specimens were forwarded 
to the Leiden Museum, we are not surprised to hear of it on the 
Claremont Islands, which lie in the same latitude as Java. As 
the specimens in question are said to have been in summer 
plumage (that is with black breasts), they could hardly have been 
confounded with any other species, since, with the exception of 
the much larger T'ringa crassirostris, Temm. and Schleg., no 
other Tinga visiting Australia is similarly coloured in the 
breeding plumage.—Ep. | 
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