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more seldom meets with them. At the Mensaleh Lake I have several times killed both male and 

 female of a pair right and left, but tried in vain to approach them in the Sudan. At the rain- 

 water ponds, of which I have several times spoken in this Magazine, most of the birds there 

 assembled will not let the sportsman approach them, and, with few exceptions, the difficulty in 

 hunting after them was indescribable. The White-tailed Plover is as exceptionally shy as 

 Mycteria senegalensis and Ardea goliath, which are amongst the shiest of the Central- African 

 birds. I am sorry to say that I did not note any particulars respecting the food of this bird; nor 

 could I obtain any information as to its nidification. The eye is reddish brown, bill blackish 

 brown, the feet beautiful light yellow." 



The present species has likewise been obtained in the Sinaitic peninsula by Mr. J. Keast 

 Lord, who accompanied the expedition lately fitted out by His Highness the Viceroy of Egypt ; 

 and, according to a note kindly sent us by our friend Herr von Pelzeln, we learn that there is a 

 specimen in the Vienna Museum, from Syria. 



In Central Asia it is also found, having been originally discovered by Eversmann between 

 Kuwan and Ian Darja, on the 11th of April. This locality is apparently near the Sea of Aral. 



With regard to its occurrence in Kabul, we extract verbatim the following account from 

 Mr. Wright's paper in ' The Ibis,' supplied to him by Dr. A. Leith Adams : — 



" ' Brown Plover,' Salt Range, Punjaub. It is seen generally by the sides of pools and lakes 



in small flocks A rare Indian bird — Kabul its habitat ; so it may be only migratory in 



the Punjaub. Sex not recorded. Native name Chizi. The reason it was not included in either 

 of my Indian lists arose from the skins not having been identified until after the papers were 

 published." 



Dr. Jerdon (Birds of India, iii. p. 646) writes : — 



" The White-tailed Lapwing is a rare bird in India. I procured it myself only once, on the 

 margin of the large lake at Bhopal, in Central India, in December, where it occurred in small 

 flocks; my attention was first called to it by its peculiar cry. Blyth procured one specimen 

 from the Calcutta bazar ; it was once obtained in the Dehra Doon ; and no other record of its 

 occurrence in India is noted. It is, however, stated not to be rare in Afghanistan, where it is 

 called Chiric." 



Our figure is taken from a nicely preserved skin obtained in Egypt by the late Mr. S. Stafford 

 Allen. It will be noticed that this specimen has a brown bar on the tail ; but this disappears, as 

 a skin in Lord Lilford's collection, from which the description was taken, has the tail perfectly 

 white. 



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