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Although, SO far as I can yet judge, female breeding iaivanns 

 will prove difficult to separate from female breeding cinereoca- 

 pilla, and the young may be almost inseparable from those of 

 other allied species, adult male taivanus is thoroughly distinct 

 from the other field yellow wagtails, i^aT/i, cinereocapilla, fiava, 

 and melanocephala, and still more so from the yellow swamp 

 wagtails, citreola and calcaratus. 



I find by the way that ]\Ir. Swinhoe himself states that 

 Gould had a specimen of this species from Singapore. 



"^ 630. — Herpornis xantholeucus, Hodgs. 



[Tonka.] 



* 782. — Alsocomus puniceus, Tick. 



[Tonka.] 



* 846. — ^gialitis geofroyi, Wagl. 



[Tonka, Klang, Singapore.] 



* 860. — Strepsilas i?iferpres, Lin. 



f Jurrum, Klang.] 



873. — Rhynchaa bengalensis, Lin. 



Although we ourselves procured no specimens, Lieutenant 

 Kelham, of H. M.'s 74th Highlanders, shot it in Perak. 



* 875 A, — Limosa melanuroides, Gould. 



[Malacca.] 



This appears to be a very distinct species ; the plumage is no 

 doubt very similar, but the difference in size between this and 

 any and every specimen of L. cegocephala is very marked. I 

 do not know that this small species occurs anywhere else I 

 mean outside the Malay Peninsula, within the limits of our 

 Eastern Empire. 



* 881 his. — Tringa crassirostris^ Tern, and 8chl. 



[Jurrum, Klang.] 



* 884. — Tringa minuta, Leisl. 



[Tonka, Jurrum, Klang.] 



* 884 ter. — Tringa albescens ^ Tern. 



[Tonka, Jurrum, Klang.] 



The bird I call ruficollis is at once distinguishable amoniyst 

 other things by its long toes. There is no difficulty about Tt ; 

 of it also, as I have noted elsewhere, we have obtained numerous 

 specimens, but minuta and albescens are barely to be separated 

 except in summer plumage. We fortunately obtained some 

 specimens of both iu summer plumage. 



