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Show 1887.] THE FAUNA OF COREA. 587 Heteractitis brevipes, Stejn. Res. Ornith. Explor. Kamtsch. p. 137 (1885). a. Olga Bay, September 1879. b. Port Lazareff, August llth, 1880. c. Gensan, August 17th, 1880. The first is an immature bird showing numerous whitish spots on the upper parts. Specimens b and c are both adult, with feathers rather abraded and immaculate upper parts. Mr. Stejneger (1. c.) finds that in Eastern Asia and neighbouring islands, in the Malay Archipelago, in the Moluccas, in N e w Guinea, and in Australia the true H. incanus of Eastern Polynesia is represented by an allied species (H. brevipes). The former differs from the latter in having slightly larger dimensions, the underparts, including the middle abdomen and under tail-coverts, covered with dark grey undulated lines and back of a purer grey in the breeding-plumage ; besides the nasal groove of the bill reaches to two thirds the length of the culmen. In H. brevipes the nasal groove only reaches half down the culmen ; in the breeding-plumage the middle abdomen and under tail-coverts are white, the undulated lines are finer, and the grey of the back is tinged with brown ; besides it is a smaller bird. W e have been able to confirm these differences, comparing the Corean birds with an adult specimen in full breeding-plumage from the Viti Islands; in it the grey extends to the fore neck and breast, these parts being varied with white. Thus it appears that the Polynesian species extends to the Melanesian islands. 25. TOTANUS FUSCUS (Linn.). Totanus fuscus, David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 463 (1877). a, b, c, d. Olga Bay, September 1879. These all look like young birds, the plumage being much mottled and spotted above and below, in fact perfectly similar to that of a young male of the same species shot near Florence, in September 1874, and which forms part of the Italian Collection in the Florence Museum. 26. TOTANUS CALIDRIS (Linn.). Totanus calidris, David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 464 (1877). a. Olga Bay, September 1879. A perfectly adult bird. 27. TEREKIA CINEREA (Giildst.). Terekia cinerea, David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 460 (1877); Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 326 (1882). a, b. Olga Bay, September 1879. c. Port Lazareff, August llth, 1880. The last-mentioned specimen has black apical blotches on the scapulars. |