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888.—Calidris arenaria, Lin. 
I saw and shot a pair of Sanderlings at Betra-Par. I never 
met with the species anywhere else in the group. 
A female measured :—Length, 8"0; expanse, 153; tail, from 
vent, 2"°0; wing, 5".0; tarsus, 1":0;, bill, from. gape, 10. Bill, 
legs, and feet, black. 
893.—Tringoides hypoleucos, Lin. 
This was, next to the Turnstone, the most common shore bird. 
It was not numerous anywhere, but we saw, one, two or three 
at Betra-Par, Kiltan, Cardamum, Amini, and Pere-Mull-Par. 
I do not suppose, however, that there were one-tenth of the 
number of common Sandpipers that there were of ‘Turnstones. 
They were not plentiful everywhere as they are at the Anda- 
mans and Nicobars. 
894.—Totanus canescens, Gmel. 
We never but once saw the Greensnank in the Laccadives, 
and this was at Cardamum, where, after some trouble, for it was 
very wary, I stalked and shot it. 
923.—Ardea cinerea, Lin. 
We saw several specimens of the Common Heron at the 
little uninhabited islands, Bingaroo and Tingaroo of the Aucut- 
tee atoll (and here I suspect it breeds, as on two or three of the 
trees were stick nests that belonged obviously to some species 
of Heron), but we never saw it elsewhere in the group. 
928.—Demiegretta gularis, Bosc. 
I saw one single specimen, of this Blue Heron at Betra-Par, 
but did not meet with it elsewhere in the Laccadives. 
I have already (Vol. I. p. 254) given full dimensions of the 
normal blue-grey or slatey specimens of this species obtained 
at Kurrachee. A snow-white example, a female, shot in the 
Bombay harbour, and which is absolutely structurally identical 
with slatey blue birds of the same sex, measured :— 
Length, 24"1; expanse, 38"0; tail, 3%8; wing, 10%2; 
tarsus, 3’°8 ; mid toe and claw, 2""91; bare portion of tibia, 2’:0 ; 
bill from gape, 4"°2. It weighed 1 fb. 
The irides were bright yellow ; the upper mandible, deep wood 
brown ; the lower mandible, dull yellow; lores, slightly green- 
ish yellow; orbital space, more hoary; feet, yellow; legs, 
blackish olive ; base of tarsi and patches on both tarsi and tibia, 
greenish yellow. 
