34 Mr. BIyth — A feiv Identifications 



piue T. ocellata (Scopoli, v. luzoniensis, Gm., and thoracica, 

 Tennn.), the last being, however, further conspicuously distin- 

 guished by its ferruginous broad collar and breast. These make 

 six Asiatic species ; and the yellow legs of Raffles's Puyu I cannot 

 help suspecting to be a mistake, and that the ordinary T.pugnax 

 is intended. In all, the females exceed the males in size; and 

 the two blue-legged species have a broad black gular stripe in 

 the female only, which, in this genus, is the pugnacious sex. 



Charadrius asiaticus, Horsfield, is C. geoffi-oyi, Wagler ; les- 

 chenaultii, Lesson ; fuscus, Cuvier (MS.) ; and rvfinus, nobis. 



C. cantianus apud HorsSeld is C. mongolicus, Pallas ; ruficollis, 

 Cuv. ; 'pyrrhothorax, Temm. ; cirrhipedesmos, Wagler; sangui- 

 neus, Lesson ; and i^ufinellus, nobis. 



C. pusillus, H., is C. philippinus, v. minor; nee pu^illus apud 

 Jerdon, which is probably C. peronii, Temm. 



Cursorius isabellinus apud Horsfield is Charadritcs xantho- 

 cheilus, Wagler (nee Gould), v. C. veredus, Gould, and C. fulvus, 

 var. /8, Latham. A rare species in collections. 



Totanus tenuirostris (!), Horsfield, is Sc/iceniclus magnus, 

 Gould, V. Tringa crassirostris, Temm. and Schlegel. 



T. acuminatus, H., is S. australis, Gould. Horsfield^s speci- 

 mens of these three Waders have been compared at the British 

 Museum by Mi*, G. R. Gray and myself, and Horsfield^s names 

 claim priority; as also the name damacensis, H., for Tringa 

 suhminuta, Middendorff, which Mr. Swinhoe correctly identifies 

 with T. minuta of my Catalogue of Birds in the Museum of the 

 Asiatic Society, Calcutta. It is unfortunate that the names are 

 not more characteristic, the Tringa tenuirostris (H.) being 

 actually the T. crassirostris of the 'Fauna Japonica,' where the 

 species is noted from Java, Borneo, and Japan. 



An instance of a small Australian Wader straggling to South 

 India occurs in the Charadrius nigrifrons, Cuvier, which is C. 

 russatus, Jerdon, " Catal." The specimen is now in the Calcutta 

 Museum. 



Sundry Australian Waders are admitted by Mr. Gould to be 

 identical with species inhabiting the northern hemisphere. Such 

 are Glareola orientalis (the young only figured), Squatarola 

 helvetica, Strepsilas interpres, Tringa subarquata. Glottis chloropus 



