^GIALITIS HIATICULA, Lin. 197 



In 1878, he and I procured four couple betAveen us ou the 

 17th August. The larorest bag I have seen was 27 couple, but I 

 have heard of 100 couple (?) to one gun. 



The Pin-tail flies slower, and rises more lazily than the 

 Fan-tail. 



G. gallinaria comes in about the end of September. I 

 note t'iiat the first I shot near Moulmein were a couple on the 

 23rd September 1878. 



933. — Ardetta cinnamomea, Gm. 



Female.— ^vocnxQdi in the Sinzawaj Reserve, 12th April 

 1877. 



849 Uss-^^t^mWix^ hiatela, %x\\. 



In a collection of birds made by Mr. W. N. Chill, near 

 Sultanpur in the Goorgaon District, I found a small Plover 

 killed on the 28th November 1878, which is clearly referable 

 to the present species. 



This is the first authentic instance, I believe, of the occurrence 

 of this species within our limits. 



This species occurs throughout Europe, in Asia Minor, Pales- 

 tine, on the Caucasus, iu the Caspian region, in Western Tur- 

 kistan, and in Siberia, where Middendorff found it breeding 

 in the extreme north on the Taimyr, nearly in the 74° N. Lat. 

 Pere David procured a single specimen near Pekin. 



It is a regular winter visitant to North-East Africa, and appears 

 as a straggler in various other parts of Africa to the extreme 

 south. Mr. Grould records a specimen from Australia. 



Mr. Grray, in his Hand List, includes Persia iu its habitat, 

 but neither Blanford nor St. John met with it there ; and, though 

 its occurrence in India renders its appearance in Persia highly 

 probable, this fact still requires confirmation. 



This species was formerly included in my Catalogue of the 

 Birds of India, on the strength of Blyth's remarks, Ihisy 

 1867, page 165, that two specimens in Mr. Hodgson's collection, 

 named by Mr. Gray Charadrius placida, were, iu his opinion, 

 nothing but JEgialitis hiaticula. But after Swinhoe had des- 

 cribed his y^gialitis hartingii, P. Z. S., 1870, page 136, and 

 I had described my Eudromias tennirostris, S. F., I., page 17, 

 Mr. Harting, in the Ibis for July 1873, showed that both these 

 species were identical with Charadrius placidtiSy Gray, and 

 that Blyth was in error in identifying this with j^gialitis hia- 

 ticula, which latter species accordingly, losing its sole claim to 



