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494. line 1 (Limicol.e) for " holorhinal " read schizorhmal. 



498. 367. Cursorius cursor cursor (Latham).— The Cream-coloured Courser. 

 Charadrius cursor Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. 1., p. 293 

 (1787 — Name given to the "cream coloured Plover" from Kent, 

 described Gen. Synops., v, p. 217 and figured Suppl. PI. cxvi) 

 instead of C. g. gallicus (Gm.) which it antedates. See Mathews and 

 Iredale, Austr. Av. Rec, v, p. 63. 

 530. The Killdeer Plover. 



Distribution-. — Should be eight or nine not six. 

 530. 378. Charadrius apricarius apricarius L.— The Southern Golden Plover, 

 instead of Ch. apricarius oreophilos Meinertzhagen because it is now 

 known that the form breeding on CEland is the same as the British 

 bird, and Linnaeus gave only CEland and America as localities in Syst. 

 Nat. ed., x, p. 150, the former having been selected as the restricted 

 typical locality by Hartert, Vog. p. F., Vol. 11, p. 1549. 



534. 379. Charadrius apricarius altifrons Brehm.— The Northern Golden 

 Plover. 

 Charadrius altifrons Brehm, Handb. Naturg. Vog. Deutschl., 

 p. 542 (1831 — Faeroes, type in Tring Mus.) 

 instead of Charadrius a. apricarius L. 



560. The Ruff. 



Distribution. — Nested Norfolk, 1922. 



568. 390. Calidris alpina schinzii (Brehm).— The Southern Dunlin. 



Pelidna Schinzii Brehm, Beitr. z. Vogelkunde, m, p. 355 (1822 — 



Kusten der Ostsee, Riigen), 

 this being the form breeding in British Isles. 



Description. — Adult male and female. Winter. — As described under 

 C. a. alpina (pp. 568-9). Summer. — Crown black-brown, feathers 

 edged at sides tawny ; nape dusky suffused pale tawny streaked dusky - 

 brown ; mantle, scapulars and new feathers of back and upper tail- 

 coverts black-brown, marked and edged tawny ; eye-stripe white, 

 spotted dusky ; ear-coverts greyish-buff ; cheeks and sides of neck 

 white (sometimes suffused buff) streaked black-brown ; chin white ; 

 throat and breast white heavily streaked black-brown, and often 

 suffused buff ; flanks white sometimes marked sepia ; black patches 

 on belly usually more or less intermixed with white and feathers tipped 

 white (amount of black varies individually) ; vent white, sometimes 

 some blackish spots ; under tail-coverts white, sometimes some spotted 

 dusky ; new tail-feathers black-brown narrowly edged and sometimes 

 marked tawny ; wing as winter, but new innermost secondaries and 

 coverts as scapulars. (A.C.M.) 



Distribution. — Breeds in British Isles (see p. 572) and on coasts of 

 North Sea and Baltic (Island of Riigen, Pomerania), Denmark, Holland, 

 southern Sweden. 



390A. Calidris alpina alpina (L.) — The Lapland Dunlin. 

 Description. — Adult male and female. Winter. — Coloration in- 

 distinguishable from C. a. schinzii and moults same. Summer. — 

 Like C. a. schinzii but feathers of crown, mantle and scapulars with 

 rich rufous-chestnut edges ; nape greyish-white streaked black-brown 

 and in sharp contrast with crown and mantle ; throat and upper- 

 breast white narrowly streaked black-brown and never suffused buff as 

 in many C. a. schinzii ; patch on belly usually blacker and more pro- 

 nounced. 



Nestling. — Not examined. 



Juvenile. — Apparently not distinguishable. 



Measurements. — q wing 110-115 mm., bill 29-30 (3 measured). $ wing 

 116-118, bill 32-34 (4 measured). (A.C.M ) 



