LIMICOL^. 311 



islands (that I can find) is a statement (Harting, Ibis, 1870, p. 379) 

 founded upon an example obtained by Mr. Whitely from Japan. 



It is a tropical species, breeding in Formosa and Hainan, and 

 possibly in the Red Sea. 



311. LOBIVANELLUS CINEREUS. 

 (GREY-HEADED WATTLED LAPWING.) 



Pluvianus dneretis, Blyth, Joum. As. Soc. Beng. xi. p. 587 (1842). 



This species differs from every other Japanese bird in having a 

 small wattle between the bill and the eye. No other Wattled Lap- 

 wing has both white secondaries and a hind toe. 



Figures : Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, pi. 63. 



The Grey-headed Wattled Lapwing is not known to have occurred 

 in Yezzo (Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 219), but is a not un- 

 common resident in Southern Japan. There are five examples in the 

 Pryer collection from Yokohama. 



Eggs in the Pryer collection measure 1*95 by 1'35 inch, and 

 exactly resemble eggs of the Common Lapwing. They are said to 

 be laid in April, on the grass-ridges between the paddy-fields. The 

 cock guards the sitting hen vigilantly, driving ofi" the birds of prey 

 with loud laughing cries. 



OHARADRIUS VEREDUS. 



(OBIBNTAL DOTTEEBL.) 



Charadrius veredus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1848, p. 38. 



The OrieDtal Dotterel has grey axillaries like the Common Dotterel and the 

 Asiatic Golden Plover. Its white belly distinguishes it from either of these species 

 in summer plumage, but at all ages and seasons it is remarkable for its small foot 

 (middle toe without the claw shorter than the bill from the frontal feathers, and 

 less than half the length of the tarsus). 



Figures : Gould, Birds of Australia, vi. pi. 14 ; Harting, Ibis, 1870, pi. G. 



The only claim of the Oriental Dotterel to be regarded as a Japanese bird is a 

 skin in Dresser's collection obtained by Gapt. Conrad at Saigon, and a skin in the 

 British Museum labelled Japan. As Saigon is in Cochin China, and as the skin in 

 the British Museum is also marked " Celebes, Wallace," this species must he struck 

 out of the Japanese List for the present. 



The Oriental Dotterel breeds in Mongolia. 



