Letters to the Editor. 495 



P.magnirostrls, Blytli, J. A. S., XIL, 966, 1843, with as 

 syuonymes, horealis, Blasius, 1858 ; sylvicidtrix, Swinhoe, I860; 

 Eversmanni, Middeiidorff, nee Bouap. ; javaniea, Bonap, nee 

 Horsf. ; Jtaveseens, Gray, 1860 j Kennieotti, Baird, 1869. 



This bird appears to be a wonderful wanderer. We have it 

 during- the cold season everywhere from Ceylon to Peshawur on 

 the west, and Debroogurh on the east. We have it from Tenas- 

 serim and from the Andamans, the Malayan Peninsula and 

 Archipelag-o, from Japan and China. On the north it extends 

 from Alaska, in N. America, and the Khurrile islands to Heligo- 

 land ! 



In the Ibis for July, 1873, Mr. Harting- g-ives further valuable 

 information as to my Eudromias f^gialitisj tenuirostris, {vide 

 ante, pp. 17 and 417). He tell us that this is cextohAj JEgialitis 

 Hartingi, Swinhoe, P. Z. S., 1870, p. 136. That this is probably 

 cJiaradrius longij^es cf Pere David, (Nouv. Archiv. 1867, Bulletin, 

 p. 38) obtained atPekin. That it is certainly the species referred 

 to by Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 1867, as follows : 



" tEgialitis hiaticula ijj) , charadrius placidus, G. R. Gray, 

 B. M. Cat. Hodgson^s Coll. 2nd Ed., p. 70.^^ 



^' Two examples of what I consider to be the common British 

 Kinged Plover are among the skins sent by Mr. Hodgson to 

 the British Museum.'" 



Accepting as I do fully Mr. Harting's verdict, it ioWovfB, firstlT/, 

 that this species must now stand as placidus, Gray, with Hartingi, 

 Swinhoe, and tenuirostris, Hume, as synonyms, and secondly/, 

 that liiatecida which was only included on Mr. Blyth^s authority . 

 in oTir Indian Avifauna, must now be erased from our list. 



A. O. H. 



fetters t0 i\z €Mtor, 



Dear Sie, 



Some few months ago, I saw a letter in the Field news- 

 paper, by "Smoothbore" about the swallows of Southern India, 

 in which 'he mentions the Wire-tailed swallow as not occurring 

 west of Coimbatore ; but on the 2nd February, 1871, I shot 3, 

 and saw several others about 5 miles from Cannanore, and about 

 2'00 yards from the Coast. On two occasions I shot the hair- 

 crested Drongo (Chibia hottentotta) not many miles from Can- 

 nanore, one in March, 1871, and the other 22nd October, 1872. 

 In August, 1872, I saw several broad-billed rollers (Etirystovms 

 orieutalisj in the Malabar jungles, near the foot of the Carcoor 



