180 MALAYAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



I saw a pair near Kuala Kangsa, Perak, as late as the first week in 

 May. Earlier in the year I shot several in the neighbourhood of 

 that place, also some few at a jheel near Sengan, lower clown the 

 river. 



In my notes is the following passage : — 



" Singapore, 21st November, 1S79. This afternoon I shot a few 

 Snipe and Plover in the swampy valley behind our barracks, also 

 put up two Eed-wattled Lapwing, one of which I shot. It is 

 exactly like those I used so often to get in Perak ; but here it is a 

 rather rare bird, and one seldom hears its plaintive cry, so well 

 rendered in Dr. Jerdon's work by the words ' Did he do it ! Pity 

 to do it.' A male, shot at Saiyong, Perak, on 13th April, measured 

 about 12 1 inches in length, tarsus 3 ; beak red, black at its tip; 

 orbits and wattles red; irides red- brown, legs yellow; head, neck, 

 and breast deep black ; ear-coverts, streak down each side of neck, 

 band across upper part of the back, abdomen, and the tail white, 

 the last broadly barred with black ; upper parts and wing-coverts 

 dull brown, glossed with metallic shades of purple and green ; 

 greater coverts broadly tipped with white ; wing-quills black ; the 

 shoulder furnished with a short blunt spur; hind toe very minute. 

 Its stomach contained vegetable matter and particles of quartz." 



Strepsilas interpres (Linn.). The Turnstone. 



About the middle of April, 1877, a Malay brought me a cage of 

 eighteen or twenty Turnstones, which he said he had netted on the 

 sands near the mouth of the Moar river ; they were in most beauti- 

 ful plumage. 



I saw large flocks of Turnstones scuttling about at the water's 

 edge on the beach at Pulau Nongsa during September, and shot 

 one or two of them. 



Gtallinago STENURA (Temm.). The Pintail Snipe, 



Although the European Snipe (G. scolopacina) is occasionally 

 found, the one commonly met with in the Malay States is the Pin- 

 tail Snipe (G. stenura), dozens (I think I may almost say hundreds) 

 of it being obtained for one of the former. But in general appear- 

 ance the two species are so alike that anybody not a naturalist, nor 

 of a very inquiring nature, may easily shoot throughout a whole 

 season in that land of the longbills, Province AVellesley, without 



