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P. 110. The Icthyaetus cultrunguis, Nobis, proves to be merely the young of 

 Halia'etus blagrus, which is not an uncommon species in Lower Bengal. H. plum- 

 beus of Hodgson (referred to) is identical with Icthyaetus Horsfieldi, likewise here 

 met with. 



P. 112. Numida maculipennis ! , Swainson. A domestic example of this redoubt- 

 able alleged species is now in the Museum. 



P. 113. 1 have here given a list of the wading birds of the families Scolopacides, 

 Charadriadte, and Rattidce of Vigors, and also of the Anatidce and the Grebes, which 

 I had obtained in the Calcutta bazar up to the time of writing ; and now, with another 

 year's experience, I have littlte to add to my former catalogue, and few modifications 

 thereof to offer. 



Totanus ochropus and T. hypoleucos I have since met with, but neither is common, 

 the former usually occurring in pairs, the latter in small flocks. Tringa platyrhyncha, 

 of which I saw and obtained but one specimen throughout the preceding season, has 

 been tolerably common during the last. T. Temminckii is chiefly brought about the 

 commencement and close of the season, two or three specimens frequently occurring 

 among the heaps of T. minuta, and occasionally greater numbers, even as many as three 

 or four dozen together ; yet out of this multitude, the collector may fail to obtain a single 

 specimen fit for preservation, from the vexatious habit most of the dealers will persist 

 in of partially plucking every bird they bring, despite all that can be said to them, and 

 thus ruining many ornithological desiderata ; it is thus that I have been unable to 

 get fine summer-plumage specimens of this bird, though many were brought. * Terekia 

 Javanica (vel orientalis) is rare, as 1 saw but a single specimen during the preceding 

 season, and two only in the course of the following one. Scolopax heterura is seldom 

 brought except about the beginning and end of the cool season, when it is numerous" 

 Rhynchea Capensis breeds here. Squatarola cinerea should not have been termed 

 common, as it is rather unfrequent (I obtained extremely fine summer-plumage speci- 

 mens in May, and also of Tringa subarquata, the latter being numerous); Mr. Jerdon 

 has lately obtained Sq. cinerea in Southern India. The " larger species of Ring 

 Plover," mentioned in my list, comprised two very similar species which I will notice 

 presently. I have recently obtained a pair, separately, of Ch. Cantianus. Pluvianus 

 Goensis is common: PI. bilobus rare: PL cinereus, Nobis (J. A t S. XI, 587), has 

 now and then occurred during the past season: and the undetermined species, with 

 powerfully spurred wings, mentioned in a note, proves to be the Australian PI. lobatus 

 (v. Lobivanellus lobatus, Gould, and Vanellus gallinaceus of Jardine and Selby's 

 ' Illustrations,' agreeing with the figure by the latter authors in the degree of deve- 

 lopement of the naked skin of the forehead, which is much less than is represented by 

 the former naturalist); it is not Indian: two other species which are so, and have not 

 yet been obtained by me, are PL centralis figured by Hardwicke and Gray, and PL 

 spinosus ? the Black-sided Sandpiper, Latham, also figured by Hardwicke and Gray.f 

 (Edicnemus crepitans — I have obtained one specimen. Parra Sinensis in breed- 



* Mr. Jerdon has once obtained Tr. Canutus near Madras, which he has sent to this Museum, 

 and recently, as he writes, Tr. alpina. Both may be presumed to be very rare. 



t For a natural arrangement of the Plover group, by Mr. Strickland, where for the first time the 

 respective value of the characters derived from the presence or absence of a back toe, and the form 

 of the wings and general character of the plumage, are duly recognised, vide Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 J841, p. 32. 



