936 
CHARADRIUS FULVUS. 
frequenting the open cultivated district on each side of the Gindura river. In the south-east of the island it 
is met with numerously about the leways, near estuaries and salt lagoons ; and on the east coast and to the 
north of Trincomalie finds a home in similar localities. I noticed it in abundance in March in the Jaffna 
peninsula, and met with it in great numbers all down the north-west coast, from Jaffna to the Puttalam 
district. It frequented the flats on the sea-coast, and consorted much with the Turnstone in some localities, 
such as the Erinativoe Islands and the Manaar sands, being particularly abundant in those places. It 
ascends the hills from the Eastern province, having been met with on the Uva patnas near Bandera wella, at 
an elevation of 4000 feet; and it is not improbable that it occurs as a straggler about the Nuwara-Eliya lake. 
It leaves the island early in May, and on the 28th of April I have shot it at Wackwella in almost perfect 
b reed in g-plumage . 
In India it is found principally in the north-east, appearing to be rare both inland, on the Deccan, and in 
the north-western districts. It has been recorded by Mr. Blauford from Bombay; but the Rev. Dr. Pairbank 
did not meet with it in the Khandala district. In Kattiawar it is abundant ; but in Sindh, Guzerat, and 
Jodhpur it is rare. In the former province Mr. Day met with it at Larkhana, and in the second-named 
Captain Butler met with it singly or in small parties, and did not observe it until October, so that it must 
extend across the country from Bengal, and not migrate direct from the north ; and this is proved by the fact 
that Mr. Blanford did not notice it in Persia (though it has been seen on the Mekran coast), nor Severtzoff 
in Turkestan. Dr. Stoliczka observed it during the first half of the winter at Yarkand; but Dr. Scully did 
not see it at all. Its habitat, therefore, beyond the north-west of India is very limited. In Raipur it is said to 
be very abundant in stony plains, leaving them about the 1st of May ; and Mr. Ball likewise records it from 
Orissa on the north and south of the Mahanadi river, and also from the Godaveri valley. Writing of it in 
regard to the Calcutta district, Mr. Ilume says that in the beginning and end of the cold season they are 
brought into the market in “ enormous numbers, and that on the 26th April they were all in breeding- 
plumage ; about the 16th May they all disappear Mr. Cripps, who says that it is very common in Furreed- 
pore, has noticed it as early as the 10th August and as late as the 10th of May. In the Irrawaddy delta it 
was found by Dr. Armstrong to be common along the shore, but more abundant inland in ploughed fields. 
In Tenasserim it is common, and is found on the open and cultivated-plain portions of the entire province ; 
it leaves, says Mr. Davison, in May. Regarding the Andamans, Mr. ITume procured it at Preparis and Cocos, 
and saw it at many of the other islands. Mr. Davison found it abundant in South Andaman and on 
Camorta in the Nicobars : he remarks that it arrives in November and remains until June; but stragglers 
are procured in the hot season in non-breeding plumage, these being evidently barren birds. On the opposite 
side of the peninsula it was met with at nearly all the islands of the Laccadive group. 
It wanders south by way of the Malay peninsula and the coast of China (from which latter region and 
from the islands of Hainan and Formosa Swinlioe records it) to the Malay islands, and thence onwards to 
Australia; while to the east it spreads beyond the Philippines, where it has been obtained in Luzon, Negros, 
Mindanao, and Zebu (in the latter in full breeding -plumage in April), to the Pelew and other islands of the 
Pacific, among which may be mentioned Eua and Ninafou in the Friendly group, and Ponape, one of the 
Seniavins, whence it has been recently received by Dr. Finsch. Layard has procured it in New Caledonia, 
and writes ( £ Ibis/ 1879, p. 107) that his son found it breeding on some islands off Ansevata, which im- 
portant information demonstrates that it is, in some degree, resident in the southern hemisphere. It has been 
found in more tropical latitudes in summer than the above mentioned, as Dr. Meyer procured it in the Togian 
Islands in 1871 ; and in Formosa Swinlioe states that it breeds in great numbers. The eggs, however, which 
he obtained in that island as belonging to the Golden Plover appear to be those of the Large Sand-Plover. It 
occurs in Sumatra (where Mr. Everett obtained it in the Lampong district), in Java, Borneo, Labuan, Celebes, 
Bouru, Amboyna, Ceram, Batchian, Halmahera, Morotai, and Timor. In Borneo it is, according to 
Mr. Mottley, very common ; and it is recorded from numerous localities. It was procured by Forster in 
Celebes ; and Herr Muller obtained it in New Guinea, from the south coast of which island Mr. Ramsay of 
Sydney likewise records it. He likewise notes it as having occurred at Cape York, Port Darwin, the Gulf of 
Carpentaria, Rockingham Bay; whilst, as regards Australia generally, Mr. Gould observes, “ Although 
nowhere very abundant, this bird is generally dispersed over all the colonies from Tasmania to the extreme 
north of the continent of Australia I obtained several specimens on the banks of the Derwent in 
