. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. [Bull. 197J: 95(1)] 40 Sunderbans, now in Bangladesh, in December 1925, it may be of interest that I observed another example of the species not many miles away, in the Indian sector of the Sunderbans, on 22 March 1974. The bird was quite unmistakable as it flew past the Forest Department's launch 'Banashree'. I suspect that the Goliath Heron is regularly to be found in the area and that the lack of reports is solely due to the absence of ornithologists. 2 January 1975 P. F. R. Jackson (c) Grey-headed lapwing Vanellus cinereus in Brunei an
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. [Bull. 197J: 95(1)] 40 Sunderbans, now in Bangladesh, in December 1925, it may be of interest that I observed another example of the species not many miles away, in the Indian sector of the Sunderbans, on 22 March 1974. The bird was quite unmistakable as it flew past the Forest Department's launch 'Banashree'. I suspect that the Goliath Heron is regularly to be found in the area and that the lack of reports is solely due to the absence of ornithologists. 2 January 1975 P. F. R. Jackson (c) Grey-headed lapwing Vanellus cinereus in Brunei and Sarawak On 28 November 1974, a large plover was found in a field near the Seria to Kuala Belait road in north-western Brunei; it remained on the same piece of ground for six days. Careful notes were taken of all distinctive features and sent with a coloured sketch to Dr. D. Wells of the University of Malaya, who confirmed the identification of the bird as above. Subsequently, on 18 January 1975, a Grey-headed lapwing, very possibly the same individual, was sighted at Miri, Sarawak, about 65 km to the south-west of Seria by Mr. P. Alexander- Marrack. Previous records of the species in Malaysia appear to be confined to one in Malaya in the 1950s; there is also a single record from Luzon in the Philippines. The present occurrences therefore constitute a considerable deviation from normal range, perhaps connected with the heavy storms prevalent at the time. 28 January 1975,.- A. P. Smith Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature: Opinions In continuation oiBull. Brit. Orn. CI. 94, 1974: 128, and by permission of the International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, the following Ruling is quoted as an extract from an Opinion published in Bull. Zool. Nomencl. affectine birds: 2 J'fMftlffS 1 OPINION 1011 (Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 30 (3/4), 1974: 16 Cypselus abessynicus Streubel, 1848 (A ves, Apodidae): suppressed under the plenary powers (1) Under the plenary powers the specific name abessyni
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