LIST OF A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM 
90. Turnix lepurana, Smith, Zool. S. Af. pi. 16. My specimen 
has the breast bright rufous, in which respect it agrees with the 
“ pectore nitide rufo” of Smith’s Latin diagnosis, but not with the 
“ pale Dutch orange” of his description, nor with the faint yel- 
lowish tinge of his figure. 
91. Otis ruficrista , Smith, Zool. S. Af. pi. 4. 
92. Squatarola helvetica (Linn.). 
93. Charadrius hiaticxda , Linn. 
94. Charadrius damarensis , Strickland. Crown, nape, ear- 
covers, back and wings uniform “ hair brown” (of Syme’s Nomen- 
clature), paler on the rump and upper tail-covers ; a dark fuscous 
mark at the anterior and lower margins of orbits; front, broad 
superciliary streak, cheeks, chin and throat dirty white; breast, 
pale brown, the shafts darker ; belly, axillary feathers, vent and 
lower tail-covers white ; primaries fuscous, darkest at the tips, the 
shafts white in the medial portions, the sixth to the ninth white at 
the base of the outer web ; secondaries pale fuscous ; rectrices pale 
fuscous, darker towards the tips, which are margined with white ; 
outer pair narrow, margined externally with white ; beak black , 
legs dark brown; acrotarsia scutate. 
Total length, 8 ; beak to front, 8, to anterior termination of nasa 
groove, l to gape, i ; wing, 5.3; medial rectrices, 2.3; externa, 
2.1 ; naked part of tibia, 7 » tarsus, i.5. 
95. Charadrius pallidus, Strickland. Crown and upper parts 
pale greyish-brown, darker on rump; front, supercilium, c ev 
and cervical collar white ; ear-covers pale brown; greater wing- 
covers tipped with whitish; primaries fuscous, darkest a *P’ 
shafts medially white; the 5th to the 9th white at base ot on 
web ; secondaries tipped with white; all the remiges marline 
ternally with white; medial pair of rectrices deep fuscous, ie 
next pairs paler, margined with white ; the three outu pan . 
white ; whole lower parts pure white ; beak and legs 1 ac 
Total length, 6; beak to front, 5 , to gape, fij; 4; 
rectrices, i.6, external, i. 5 ; tarsus, i.2. 
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