196 RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST. 



155. Middle Ring Plover, yEgialitis intermedins 

 (Menetr.). 



Is not uncommon in the Delta, associating with the 

 smaller species, but we did not get any south of Cairo. 



156. . Little Ring Plover, ALgialitis flnviatilis 

 (Bechst.). 



A resident, universally distributed and very common. I 

 imagine they generally breed by the river ; but at Gebel 

 Silsilis, a small flock had located themselves at the brink of 

 the desert a mile inland, at a place resembling Thetford 

 Warren in Norfolk (where /E. Jiiatictila breeds inland). 



How interesting it is to watch these Little Plovers running 

 nimbly over the sand, or gazing at the shipping on the 

 river, or with quick movements picking up the minute sub- 

 stances which constitute their food ! 



157. Kentish Plover, ^gialifis cantiana (Lath.), 

 (Hasselquist 30). 



The Kentish Plover must have been rarer than usual, as 



• I only shot one at Gow lake (with some yE. varius), and 



saw another in the market at Alexandria. Captain Shelley's 



remark is that it is a very abundant Plover both in Egypt 



and Nubia. 



158. African Sand Plover, ^gialitis varius {\I\^\\\.) \ 



jE. longipes, Heug. ; 



Fig., Ibis, 1873, p. 262. 



I did not find this species consorting with the Little Ring 

 Plover. It may be that it prefers lakes to the river. I 



