KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 52. N:0O |17. 39 
apparently two or three years of age, the plumage is developed, but the bill and 
the feet orange-coloured. General at the coast. 
Charadriformes. 
Fam. Charadriidee. 
H2ematopus fuliginosus GouLp. 
Math. handl. n:r 1453. 
Two birds of this spec. were observed at Sunday Islands in Febr. 1911. 
Lobivanellus miles Bopp. 
Math. handl. n:r 148. J ad., 2 22 Beagle bay, Dampier land 7/7, !9/3, ?2/7 1911. 
In the spec. J ad., being in the last stage of moulting and having gained a 
full »spring-dress»>, the yellow lappets on the head are considerably bigger than those 
of the female. The spur of the wing is also noticeably longer and has a sharp tooth. 
Moulting. — These three specimens are in typical moulting. One of the spec. 
especially still has the old plumage, particularly on the wings. Here there has evid- 
ently been a bleaching phenomenon, this part being very pale light-brown compared 
with the new part above, which is grey-brown in colour. One spec. is in the last 
stage of moulting, the first primaries just growing out, the tail full. In one bird 
the wing-coverts are in strong moulting, and the boundary between the old and the 
new plumage pronounced. In the second spec. the tail-feathers are growing out, and 
the biggest wing-coverts not yet dropped. 
Ecological. — On the 7th and 1l0Oth of July I saw 4 birds together at Salt 
creek in Beagle bay. They were not shy. Their harsh screech was quaint and could 
be heard a long way. The birds flew with the characteristic flight of the common 
lapwing (Vanellus vanellus L.). My fellow-traveller, taxidermist WIiDELL, observed 
the spec. up at Fitzroy river (in the beginning of the year). 
Ochthodromus geoffroyi WaAGL. 
Math. handl. n:r 158. 2 SSI ad. Broome, Dampier land, ?/s, ?/8 1911. 
The old birds are in their typical winter plumage. They were common at the 
coasts of Kimberley in Aug. 
