BIRDS OF UPPER PEGU. 179 



Mr. Oates remarks : " This Bustard Quail is generally spread 

 over the plains, and ascends a short distance up the spurs. It 

 keeps in pairs, is not very common, and is a constant resident. 

 Two males measured — 



"Length, 6-15 and '6-5; expanse, 11 and 11*5; tail, from 

 vent, 1-5; wing, 3'3 and 3*45; bill, from gape, 07; tarsus, 0*88 

 and 0-98. 



" A female measured: Length, 6*7 ; expanse, 11*3 ; tail, from 

 vent, 1*5 ; wing, 3 - 5 ; bill, from gape, 0'85 ; tarsus, 0-95. 



" In a male the irides were yellowish white ; eyelids, purplish 

 grey ; gape and both margins of both mandibles, as far as the 

 middle, dusky orange yellow ; tip of lower mandible, pale ; rest of 

 bill, dark brown ; legs, dusky yellow on tarsus, becoming dark 

 glossy brown on lower portion and toes ; claws, dusky white." 



834 bis. — Turnix maculosa, Tern. 



Mr. Blanford notes that he obtained this species (T. Blanfordi, 

 Blyth, Jouenal, Asiatic Society, 1863, p. 80) at Thayetmyo. 

 I have it from Kolidoo a little further south-east. 



843.— Glareola lactea, Tem. 



Both Captain Feilden and Mr. Oates sent specimens of this 

 bird, and Mr. Oates says that it is " common on all sand-banks 

 in the Irrawaddy ; occasionally in the evening it comes inland in 

 large numbers, hawking Swallow-like after insects. I found an 

 egg of this bird in a sand-bank on the 12th April. It was laid 

 on the bare sand, and measured l - 03 by 0- 8. It was a pale buff, 

 much blotched all over with two shades of pale yellowish brown. 

 Specimens measured — 



"Length, 6*7; expanse, 17 - 2 to 17*5; tail, from vent, Z'l ; 

 wing, 5-7 to 5-8; bill, from gape, 075 to 078; tarsus, 075 

 to 0-81. 



" Irides, dark brown ; eyelids, dark grey ; terminal half of the 

 bill, black ; of the rest, two-thirds are red, changing to yellowish 

 brown at the gape ; legs and claws, black/'' 



845.— Charadrius fulvus, Gm. 



Pegu specimens are similar to those from all parts of India 

 and the Andamans. Mr. Oates says that this is not a very 

 common bird within our limits. 



847.— TEgialitis mongolicus, Fall. 



Is said by Mr. Oates to be tolerably common. 



850. — iEgialitis philippinus, Lath. 



I really do not pretend to understand the synonymy of these 

 the smallest of the Plovers, and I think it is high time that 



