310 MR. R. SWINHOE ON THE BIRDS OF CHINA. [June 23, 



Temminck to have been procured from Japan, but I should think it 

 extremely doubtful. Mr. Tristram has an undoubted specimen of 

 this species, shot by himself between Cairo and Suez in February. 

 This is the most westerly occurrence of this bird I have heard of. 



266. ^GlALITES MONGOLICUS. 



Charadrms mongolicus. Pall. ; Midd. Sib. Keise. 



C. riijico/lis, Cuv. 



C. •pyrrlwtliorax, Temm. 



C. cirrhijiedesmos, Wagler. 



C. sanguineus. Less. 



C. rufinellus, Blyth. 



Inland plains of North China, Mongolia, and Amoorland. Com- 

 mon in winter in Lower Bengal. It appears rarely, if ever, to come 

 to the sea -coast, and is probably a Dotterel, though it has many affi- 

 nities with the Sand-plovers. 



267. iEciALlTES CANTIANUS. 



Charadvius cantianus, Lath, {alexandrinus. Pall.). 



Though not noted by von Schrenck from the Amoor, I suspect the 

 summer resort of this bird extends as high up as Kamtschatka. I 

 found it at Talieuwan, and in winter we receive large accessions to 

 our resident numbers from the north. It is, I think, entirely a bird 

 of the coast, never being met with inland. The birds that stay 

 to breed on the coasts and islands of South China and Formosa can 

 at once be recognized by their flesh-coloured legs, which in the arri- 

 vals from the north are leaden. Our southern birds are, moreover, 

 larger, very pale, in some cases almost white, and never, to my know- 

 ledge, attain aught but an indication of the bright rufous and black 

 that adorn the head of the northern form. A similar resident race 

 has been procured on the coast of California, and separated by Cassin 

 as a distinct species under the term Hiaticula nivosa. I do not 

 think we can regard this form other than as a climatal or incipient 

 species, or, if the term be preferred, conspecies. 



268. ^GIALITES PHILLIPINUS. 



Charadrius iMlippinus, Scopoli. 



C. minor, Meyer, and of British authors. 



C. curonicus, Beske. 



Abundant on the coasts of China and Formosa, where many spend 

 the whole summer. Extends into Amoorland and Japan. Is some- 

 what an inland bird, and frequently found on the sandy banks of 

 rivers, and in winter on freshly ploughed fields, margins of pools, 

 marshy grounds, and wet rice-fields. 



269. H^MATOPUs LONGiROSTRis, Gray. 



H. ostralegus, L., of my former lists. 



Bill an inch and more longer than in H. ostralegus, and differently 

 shaped. It never has the white collar, even when immature, and 



