NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAB XXIII. 1916. 91 



This bird nsed to be called G. orientalis, but, as snown by Mathews, Forster 

 iu 1795 called it Glareola maldivarum, coromanda and madraspatana, giving Latin 

 names to Latham's Maldivian, Coromandel, and Madras Pratincoles. 



In the Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 60, Sharpe says that " the adult plumage is 

 apparently gained by a moult," as if anything else were possible. This reminds me 

 of another instance in literature: In the new edition of Naumann, vol. viii. pi. 11, 

 the specimens are rather richly coloured. This is not the fault of the reproduction, 

 but because I or my assistant allowed Keulemans to take as models specimens from 

 Khartum and East Africa, not knowing that they differed from European ones. 

 Ornithologists and geographers will, however, find it a puzzle to identify the 

 " Kokorikosee." The specimen figured is a semi-adult male from Lake Kikorongo, 

 a salt-lake one day's march from Lake Albert Edward, in Toru, Uganda Protecto- 

 rate, where the late Dr. Ansorge collected several specimens in April 1899. 



In the Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 63, is another curiosity. Sharpe explains 

 there in a footnote that the name liberiae must be adopted for the species under 

 consideration, but he quotes Glareola marchei Oust. 1877 and Glareola nuchalis 

 liberiae Schlegel, 1881. According to his own synonymy, therefore, the form in 

 question must be called marchei and not liberiae ! Reichenow, however, considers 

 that Oustalet's description of his marchei refers to the form known as nuchalis, and 

 in this he is undoubtedly right. In any case marchei cannot be the same as 

 liberiae, as it has the nape white and not rufous. 



CONCERNING THE OCCURRENCE OE EBOLIA BAIBDII 

 IN SOUTH-WEST AERICA 



By ERNST HARTERT, Ph.D. 



IN the Ibis, 1870, pp. 151, 152, Mr. J. E. Harting made known the very inter- 

 esting and unexpected fact, that C. J. Andersson had obtained a specimen of 

 Erolia bairdii at Walvisch Bay, S.W. Africa, on October 23, 1863. He said that 

 the single specimen was " in the collection of the late Mr. C. J. Andersson." 

 Seebohm, Geogr. Distribution of the Charadriidae, p. 445, says that the specimen 

 is in his collection. Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 768, informs ns that he 

 was unable to find it in the Seebohm collection. Buturlin, in Dresser's Eggs of 

 Birds of Europe, p. 693, tells us that this skin passed from the Seebohm collection 

 into that of the St. Petersburg Museum. One example was procured on the island 

 of Arakamchechen near the Tschnktschen coast This specimen is the only one 

 ever obtained on the Siberian side of the Bering Strait. Taczanowski, Faune Orn. 

 Siberie Orient., p. 924, seems to think that two specimens have been obtained 

 there, but Palmen means, of course, the same bird which Nelson collected near 

 the shore of Tschuktschenland. 



Buturlin, in the valuable notes given in Dresser's work, accuses Reichenow 

 of having said that the species has " frequently " occurred in Damaraland. 

 Reichenow, however, did not put it so strong, though he certainly said " mehrmals," 

 which means several times, while frequently would be " häufig," though only the 

 one single bird has ever been recorded from Africa. 



