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to detected within the British islands. Here the present bird, which 1 believe to be 

 the same, is not uncommon. 



Phillopneuste fuscata, Nobis. This appears to me to be a new species. Length 

 5| inches, extent 7| inches, wing from bend 2§ inches, and tail 2§ inches ; bill to 



forehead >- inch, and § inch to gape ; tarse above § inch ; 1st primary ] \ inch short- 

 er, and 2nd primary | inch shorter, than the4tb, which is longest ; tail slightly round- 

 ed, in which respect, as in others, this species approximates the Salicarice. General 

 colour nearly uniform dusky greenish-brown above, somewhat darker upon the crown ; 

 beneath pale, and whitish on the throat and middle of belly ; shoulders of the wings 

 beneath, and under tail-coverts, tinged with fulvous, as also the flanks slightly, and a 

 trace of the same upon the breast and ear-coverts ; a pale streak over the eye, com- 

 mencing at the nostril. Irides dark brown. Bill dusky above, yellowish at base of 

 lower mandible : inside of the mouth rather pale yellow : legs greenish-brown. Shot 

 in the neighbourhood. 



Ibis Macei, Cuvier and Wagler; I. religiosaoi Sykes's catalogue, and confounded 

 by others with the venerated Ibis of ancient Egypt, to which it is nearly allied: a 

 male and female, of the age described as Tantalus melanocephalus, Latham, and 

 figured as Ibis melanocephalus, Stephens, by Messrs. Jardine and Selby, III. Orn. 

 pi. cxx. 

 Ardea Javanica. 



Also numerous Totani, Tringce, &c. of which the following species occur in the 

 bazaars; those marked with a f being common to this country and the British islands. 

 Totanus glottoides, very common ; T. Horsfieldi (Limosa Horsfieldi, Sykes), 

 do.; fT.fuscus, not rare; fT. calidris, very common; fT. glareola, excessively 

 abundant ; f T. ochropus and f T. hypoleucos, apparently rare, at least I have seen 

 neither of these in a fresh state as yet, though we possess specimens from the neigh- 

 bourhood ; f Machetes pugnax, common; fTringasubarquata, tolerably common; 

 f T. platyrhyncha, rare; fT. minuta, exceedingly abundant; fT. Temminckii, 

 not rare; Eurinorhynchus griseus, a specimen of this excessively rare and curious 

 species in the Museum (vide J. A. S. v. 127, and As. Res. xix. 699) ; Terekia ori- 

 entalis, occasionally met with; fLimosa melanura, common; fNumenius arqua- 

 tus, do. ; f Himantopus melanopterus, do. ; fRecurvirostra Avocetta, not rare ; 

 \Scolopax Gallinago, very abundant; fSc. Gallinula, much less so; Sc. heterura, 

 tolerably common ; Rhynchea Capensis, abundant (one species only) ; f Squatarola 

 cinerea, common; charadrius Virginianus, do.; {fCh. morinellus, of this we have an 

 old and much injured specimen, apparently set up when fresh ;) fCh. minor (v. 

 hiaticuloides, Franklin, v. Phillipensis ? , v. pusillusi Horsfield), common; 

 another and larger species of Ring Plover, as yet undertermined, do. ; Plu- 

 vianus Goensis and PI. bilobus, not rare* ; Parra Sinensis, very common in the im_ 

 mature plumage; P. Indica, much less so, — the young of this has no superciliary 

 white stripe, and otherwise differs so much from the adult that I suspected it to be 

 distinct before procuring a specimen in transitional state of plumage; fFulica 



* Since writing the above, I have met with another and (I think) a new species, PL 

 cinereus, Nobis; and there is also an undetermined species, with very formidably 

 spurred wings, in the Museum, which I am told is occasionally met with." 



