388 Appendix to Mr. Blyttis Report [No. 149. 



with white, and having a black bar above the white ; rest of the 

 wing-coverts like the back. 



The general colour of this species approaches that of the LobivaneL 

 lus cinereus, Nobis (XI, 587), which latter is perhaps the Vanellus 

 keptuschka, Tem., of a catalogue of Bengal birds published in the An. 

 and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1843, p. 447, as it sufficiently agrees with the 

 brief description of Charadrius keptuschka, Lepech., in Griffith's work, 

 where, as synonyms, are attached the THnga fasciata, Gmelin, as the 

 female, and Ch. gregarius, Pallas, as the young. The same syno- 

 nyms are, however, annexed in a paper by Prof Brandt, ' On certain 

 Siberian birds described by Latham/ published in the An, and Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. 1843, p. 114, where it is added that the * Black-sided Sand- 

 piper' of Hardwicke's published drawings "seems to belong to this 

 species," being, on the other hand, very different from my cinereus. 

 Cawnpore is mentioned on Hardwicke's plate as the locality where his 

 two specimens were obtained, and Mr. Frith tells me, that he also 

 has met with the same species in Bengal ; but it has not hitherto 

 occurred to me, nor to Mr. Jerdon in the South of India. In the same 

 list of Bengal specimens, Vanellus cristatus is also mentioned, a species 

 which is common along the Indus, and is included in Mr. Hodgson's 

 MS. catalogue of Nepalese birds ; but this also I have not yet met with 

 here, neither have I hitherto obtained the Hoplopterus ventralis in this 

 vicinity ; but I have procured two examples only of Sarciophorus bilo. 

 bus* : Lobivanellus goensis is very common, and L. cinereus far from 

 rare. For an arrangement of this Lapwing group, vide P. Z. S. 1841, 

 p 42. 



Totanus brevipes, Vieillot (apud Drapiez, Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat. 

 Ill, 57'2. " Patrie inconnue"). The Society possess an old specimen 

 of a Sandpiper which I think may be referred to this, though rather 

 superior in dimensions to those assigned in the work cited. It is not 

 very unlike the Green Sandpiper (T. ochropus), but is larger, 

 with no white over or upon the tail, and remarkably short legs. 

 Length about nine inches and a half ; of wing six inches, and tail two 

 and a half; bill to forehead an inch and a half; and tarse under an 

 inch and a quarter. Colour of the upper-parts uniform dingy olive- 



* Recently, (in September and October 1844,) several fresh examples of this species 

 have occurred. 



