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different times by people who said that they had caught them 
on the banks of streams. Each had four light spots, forming 
a quadrilateral, on the back. 
126. Glareola melanoptera. [Amalaka.] 
These birds were seen, two or three together, several times 
during September, flying about over the village street, and 
frequently alighting in it. This seemed to be the only spot 
of bare ground which they could find in this forest-covered 
country. Migratory Wading Birds of a number of kinds 
have been seen to do the same—not only the Ringed 
Plovers already reported, but some of which I failed to get 
a specimen. In September of a previous year a dock of 
some long-billed Waders came and stood in the street. 
153. Charadrius hiaticola. [Amalaka.] 
ALgialitis hiaticula Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 422. 
No. 2839. S hiem. Bitye, Nov. 1, 1907. 
156. Charadrius forbesi. [Amalaka.] 
No. 2835. $ . Bitye, Oct. 31, 1907. 
These two Plovers w'ere also shot while walking in the 
village-street in the manner described under Glareola melano - 
plera. So were the Ringed Plovers of the year before, 
JEgialitis hiaticola and AC. dubia , already reported ( f Ibis,’ 
1907, pp. 422, 423). 
247. Sarothrura reichenovi. [Otua-bijilik.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 421. 
Sarothrura elegans Reichen. Y. A. i. p. 287. 
J . Bitye, Dec. 5, 1907. 
This specimen was caught in a snare baited with termites. 
In its muscular gizzard, and also that of another caught 
at Efulen two years before, was much coarse sand. The 
latter was brought in at evening, doubtless caught in the 
hands, and kept alive overnight. While in captivity it made 
a curious noise, like a low growl. 
My note on these queer little Rails ( £ Ibis/ 1907, p. 421) 
was put under the head of S. bonapartei, because that was 
the species recorded in Dr. Sharpe's previous paper. Doubt¬ 
less what was said there applies to both species. 
