Order CHAEADEIIFOEMES.] 



[Family CHAEADEIID^. 



OCTHODROMUS OB S GURUS. 



(NEW-ZEALAND DOTTEEL). 



Charadrius obscurus, Gmelin; Buller, Birds of New Zealand, vol. ii., p. 1. 



Me. Maeklund has sent me two skins of this well-known species, in summer plumage, which he 

 obtained on Table Hill, Stewart Island, at an elevation of 2,100 feet above the sea-level, and at 

 a distance of fully eight miles from the coast, with heavy intervening bush-country. They were 

 breeding there, for he saw young ones in down. 



OCTHODROMUS BICINCTUS. 



(BANDED DOTTEEL.) 



Charadrius bicinctus, Jard. & Selby; Buller, Birds of New Zealand, vol. ii., p. 3. 



I have described (vol. ii., p. 2) the young state of this beautiful Dottrel. I have now a series of 

 seven specimens, showing the different states of plumage in the progress of the bird towards 

 maturity : No. 1 is in the first plumage, with an indistinct zone of mottled grey encircling the 

 foreneck ; No. 2 has a broader and darker zone ; Nos. 3 and 4 have it still darker, the centre of 

 each feather being blackish-brown or black, one of them presenting a faint indication of the 

 second band ; No. 5 exhibits this pectoral band, the chestnut being mixed with white, and conse- 

 quently indistinct ; Nos. 6 and 7 (adult $ and ? ) present the double bands of black and chestnut 

 respectively in full perfection. 



I have in my collection a specimen, obtained at Kaikoura, in which the chestnut band is con- 

 siderably broader than in ordinary specimens. 





^EGIALITIS RUFICAPILLA. 



(EED-CAPPED DOTTEEL). 



Charadrius ruficapillus, Temminck ; Buller, Birds of New Zealand, vol. ii., p. 5. 



So far as I am aware, no further specimens have been obtained. 



