OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 135 



Description of a new species of Plover, from North Australia — by 

 E. Pierson Ramsay, F.L.S., Curator of the Australian 

 Museum, Sydney. 



^EGIALITIS MASTERSI, Sj). 110V. 



Adult Male. — All the upper surface of the wings, back, and 

 rump, brown ; the margins of the feathers, paler ; the primaries 

 and primary coverts, blackish brown, almost black on the outer 

 webs and tips of the primary quills, the whole of the shaft of the 

 first primary, except at the tip, and of the remainder the central 

 portion of the apical third of the shafts, white ; secondaries dark 

 brown, narrowly margined with white at the tips and along the 

 outer web for a short distance, and a narrow line of white along 

 the shaft on the outer web ; the inner five of the primaries having 

 an irregular elougated patch of white on the outer web, about the 

 central portion of the feathers; the outer series of all the wing- 

 coverts margined with white at the tips ; the side feathers on the 

 rump white, or broadly tipped with white ; the upper tail-coverts 

 brown, more or less tipped and widely margined with white to a 

 greater extent on the outer series ; axillaries and under surface of 

 the wing white ; the marginal feathers of the shoulders below, 

 in some, brown, margined with white ; the outer series of the under 

 wing-coverts, ashy grey, margined and tipped with white ; some 

 of the side feathers adjacent to the fianks brown, margined with 

 white, or, in some white mesially shaded with brown ; centre of 

 the lower portion of the breast, abdomen, flanks, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts white ; throat and sides of the neck, from below 

 the ear-coverts to the chest, snow-white, bounded by a narrow line 

 of black feathers ; lores, forehead, sides of the face, and ear- 

 coverts black, a roundish white spot on either side on the fore- 

 head, just over the lores ; a small linear mark of white, under the 

 lower eyelid ; eyelids black ; the remainder of the head chestnut, 

 mixed with brown on the crown ; sides of the occiput, nape, and 

 the whole of the hind neck and upper part of the interscapular 

 region extending across the chest and breast, deep chestnut ; sides 

 of the chest extending nearly to the flanks, lighter chestnut ; 



