FURTHER NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF GILGIT. 275 
follows :—HLength, 9:95 inches ; wing, 5:7 ; tail, 4°1; tarsus, 0°9. 
Legs blackish purple ;_irides dark brown. 
This bird is the true 7. humilis of Temminck, as is shown by 
Lord Walden in his paper on the “ Birds of the Philippine 
Islands” (Trans. Zool. Soc, CX, pp. 219, 220). Itis darker 
and richer in colouring than the Indian Red Dove, which 
stands as T. tranquebaricus, Herm., and has the under wing- 
coverts dark ashy. The most distinctive point is in the size, 
T. tranquebaricus averaging 9:25 inches in length, with a 
wing 5:2 (Srray Featumrs, IV., p. 292). 
I have examined the series in the British Museum, and the 
difference between the two species holds good throughout, 
a specimen from Amoy being undistinguishable from the 
Gilgit specimen. In the Museum series are several of this 
species obtained in Nepal by Mr. B. H. Hodgson, One of 
them is labelled “ 4. murmensis, Hodgs.,’’ printed by mistake 
LE. murwensis in the “ Zoological Miscellany,” p. 85, and cor- 
rected by Mr. Hodgson in his own handwriting in the British 
Museum copy. Giebel, in his “ Thesaurus Ornithologiz,” 
(sub voc. Zurtur humilis), and Bonaparte, in “Comptes Ren- 
dus,’ XLL., p. 659, misprint this specific term muroensis. 
192 6.—Pterocles arenarius, Pallas. (799.) 
I secured a single specimen, a female, in the Sai valley, on 
the 19th December. No others were seen. 
198.—Aigialitis cantiana, Latham. (848.) 
I procured a male in adult plumage on 13th August. 
199.—ASgialitis philippensis, Scop. (849.) 
Figialitis curonica, Gmel. 
I shot a number of specimens of this Plover in the first 
half of August. 
200 «.—Aigialitis jerdoni, Legge. (850.) 
I procured two specimens of this Plover, both females, one 
on the 11th May, and the otheron the 27th September. It 
differs from 4. curonica in the basal half of the lower man- 
dible being yellow, in the absence of a black frontal band 
next to the bill, and in having a fleshy-yellow ring to the 
eyelids. It is also slightly smaller, and the female is smaller 
than the male; whereas in 4. curonica the female is the 
larger. 
208 «.—Ibidorhynchus struthersi, Vigors. (879.) 
On the 6th August I procured a young female in immature 
plumage in Gilgit. 
