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one, the orig-inal houlardoi Gmel., from North Africa, Arabia, and 

 Spain, and the other, the present species, from " Punjaub, Sindh, 

 Eng-land, Germa,ny, Belgium.'''' Can these really be distinct? 

 and if so, wherein does the distinctness lie ? 



838. — Sypheotides auritus, Latli. 



"We never met with this species, ])ut yearly in August or 

 September, when the inundation has been good, from 10 to 30 

 couples of this beautiful and graceful little bustard are killed in 

 the neighbourhood of Kurrachee. I have not yet heard of their 

 appearance elsewhere in the province. 



840. 'bis, — Cursorius gallicus, Gmel, 



The cream colored courser was met with, though sparingly, in 

 all suitable localities, sandy v^astes, especially in the neighbourhood 

 of cultivation. They are permanent residents, and breed in Sindh 

 as they do in suitable localities in the northern and western dis- 

 tricts of the Punjab and almost throughout Rajpootana: 



There has been an idea that our Indian race was distinct and 

 Jerdon hesitatingly proposed for it the name of Jamesoni ; I have 

 compared an African specimen (a bad one it is true) with a series 

 of Indian ones, and I can discover no difference whatsoever 

 between them. 



844.— Sqnatarola helvetica, L, 



I only met with this species in the Kurrachee Harbour where 

 it was very abundant ; feeding in company with Cirrepiclesmus 

 Geoffroyi, mongoUcus, and numerous other little waders on the 

 vast mud flats that the retreating tide daily lays bare. All were 

 in winter plumage. 



■845.— Charadrius fnlvus, Gm. longipes, Tem. 



I myself never met with this species in Sindh ; but Dr. Day who 

 is well acquainted with the bird, and who was an ardent ornitholo- 

 gist himself before he turned his attention to Ichthyology, observed 

 a pair in the neighbourhood of Larkhana. Dr. Jerdon says, that 

 many of this species breed in India even as far south as Nellore ; 

 hitherto none of ynj correspondent.s have ever been able to verify 

 this fact; Mr. F. R. Blewitt who watchedt hem carefully for some 

 years at Raipore on the stony plains about which they occur in 

 myriads, found that by the 1st May they become wild and shy, 

 and by first of June disappear entirely. 



Quite recently, however, Mr. A. J. Rainey, most obligingly 

 sent me a nest and egg, with the following remarks : 



Nest and egg of the Golden Plover, (charadrius longipes, Tem.) 



S^^tember 23, 1871. — '' At Khalispur, about li miles from 



