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margins alone suffice to separate tlie birdj besides this^ the tints 

 of our bird are duller and darker, both above and below, and the 

 bird itself is smaller. Altogether, the bird is as nearly as possible 

 intermediate between P. Nlpaleiisls and Carpodacus ?Jr//ikrlitus, 

 and but that the bill appro.aches more nearly to the former, 

 I should have placed this species under Caiyodacus. 



(h\lxmm touiri)5tns^ 8'p. Nov. 



Bill, long and slender ; wing, 5'7 indies; no white bar on later priinaries ; 

 shafts of all the primaries hair-hrown, strongly niarJced ; umber broivn 

 pectoral collar. 



I HAVE had lying" by me for years a ring plover which I have 

 never yet been able to identify : it may not be new, but it is 

 certainly new to India. 



Dr. Jerdon gave me this specimen years ago, as LeseltenauUl, 

 or as it should more properly stand Geojfroyi. I at the time 

 told him that it was not this species. We had^ however, no speci- 

 mens of Geoffroyi with which to compare it, and nothing further 

 was said about it at the time. Subsequently, I have compared it 

 with large series, of Geoffroyi, Movgolkus, Hlatlcula, Cantiauits, 

 and Citroniciis, with Mr. Hartings's elaborate and careful de- 

 scriptions of Ell. Asiatic'us and Veredus, yet it certainly belongs 

 to none of these species. The bill is elongated and slender ; in fact 

 it is almost precisely that of Morhellns, but more elongated, and 

 the lower mandible markedly slenderer. This fact alone would 

 suffice to show that the bird cannot belong to any of the species 

 of jEgialites above enumerated. Putting this aside, however, 

 Geoffroyi, Cantianus, and Mongolicas have the whole of the shaft 

 of the first primary, and all but the tips and the bases of the 

 shafts of the other primaries white. Eiaiicnla hiis less of the 

 shaft, but still a considerable portion of it, white. Cnro- 

 nicus has the first shaft white, the others, hair-ljrown. Asiallaus 

 has all the shafts usually white ; Veredus the first and a portion of 

 second sluift^ white, the rest brown ; the present s]X^cies luis the 

 whole of the shafts brown, only at the extreme tips of each primary, 

 so far as in the closed wing they project beyond the following 

 one, are the shafts albescent, and here even not for the whole length 

 of such tip but only for about two-thirds of the length ; the 

 remaining terminal one-third of the shafts of the tip being hair 

 brown like the rest of the shaft. 



Again there is no white bar on the outer webs of the later 

 primaries as there is in Geoffroyi, Mongolkiis, and Caidiaiins ; 



