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of the rump, lateral upper tail coverts, and a broad tipping- 

 to the secondary greater wing coverts, pure white. A more 

 or less imperfect ring round the eye, and a broad streak 

 from the lower part of the eye over the lower portion of 

 the ear coverts, sooty black. Occiput, back of nape, back 

 and mantle, dull, dusky, blue grey; many of the feathers, 

 especially the scapulars, narrowly margined with white. The 

 rump, central tail coverts, and tail, greyish brown, paler on the 

 lateral tail feathers; quills, blackish brown, white shafted; 

 the posterior secondaries paler, and conspicuously margined with 

 white towards the tips ; the greater primary coverts blackish 

 brown ; the posterior ones narrowly tipped white ; the rest of 

 the coverts more or less dark brown ; the greater secondary 

 coverts, as already mentioned, with broad conspicuous white tip- 

 pings, a few dull grey streaks on the sides of the body and 

 flanks, 



I am by no means certain that this is fulicarius ; it is a 

 Thalaropus, both by bill and wing, but it does not agree over well 

 with my European specimens, and when more examples are pro- 

 cured, may not improbably have to be separated as asiaticiis, 

 nobis. 



890.— Lobipes hyperboreus, L. 



I did not mj^self obtain this species, but subsequent to my 

 leaving Sindh, my friend Mr. E. James, c. s.; obtained a 

 specimen in August, in the Kurrachee Harbour, and forwarded it 

 to me. Unfortunately, he noted neither sex, colour of soft parts, 

 date, or measurements in the flesh, but the bird is nearly in 

 breeding plumage. Measuring the ^/^:i;^, I find the length about 

 7"5; wing, 4'25; \}i\.Q first primary the longest; the second, 0'06, 

 and the third, 0*3 shorter. Bill at front, 0'83; tarsus, 0"83; 

 bare portion of tibia, 0*47. 



The forehead, lores, a narrow streak over the eye, the sides of 

 the head and neck and entire lower parts including the sides of 

 the rump, the axillaries and the major portion of the wing 

 lining, white, except a dark sooty streak from the front of, 

 and under the eye, to the ear. Numerous grey striae on the 

 sides of the body and flanks ; the greater primary lower coverts 

 which are grey, and the smaller lower coverts along the edge of 

 the wing which are pale greyish brown, margined white. A very 

 faint refescent tinge at the point of the forehead, and on the 

 base of the neck in front. The crown, occiput, and nape, dull 

 sooty; back of neck, blackish grey, the feathers paling some- 

 what at the margins ; back and scapulars^ black, almost velvet 

 black, the feathers more or less broadly margined with rufous 



