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20. iEGIALITIS TENELLA (Hartlaub). 



Cli{aradrius^ tcnelhis, Hartlaub, Fauna Madajj;., 1861, p. 72. (Madagascar.) 

 ^Egialilifi teneUus, Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 305. 



Four specimens. Male adult,River Sakales, May 13. Female adult, 

 Manaiijara, east coast, May 28. "Bill black; legs dusky flesh color; 

 toes black." Male adult, IManaujara, May 29. Male adult, Lolioloka, 

 east coast, June 24. 



The legs and feet in these specimens are dark ; not yellow, as shown 

 in Seebohm's plate.' 



21. .(EGIALITIS VARIA (Vieillot). 



Charadrius rarius, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet.,. XXVII, 1818, p. 143. (Africa.; 

 J^giaUtis rarius, Hakting, Ibis, 1873, p. 261. 



One specimen. Female adult, Lolioloka, east coast, June 3. 



22. iEGIALITIS.THORACICA, Richmond. 



^gialitis thoracicn, Richmoxd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., X, 1896, ]). 53 (March 14). 

 (East coast Madagascar.) 



Three specimens. Female adult, mouth of river Fanantara, east 

 coast. May 18. Female adult, Lolioloka, east coast, June 3. Two 

 specimens. 



The description of this species is here repeated for the beneftt of those 

 who are unable to consult the original. 



Type. — Female adult, 151174, U.S.N.M., Loh(doka, east coast of 

 Madagascar, June 3, 1895. Doctor AV. L. Abbott, collector. 



Crown, back, scapulars, tertials, and wing- coverts hair brown, the 

 feathers edged with pale or deep buff, those of the greater wing-coverts 

 edged and tipped with white; primaries, secondaries, rnmi), median 

 upper tail coverts, and middle rectrices dark clove brown; shafts of pri- 

 maries (including the third) with white on terminal half; primary cov- 

 erts brownish black, tipped with white; lateral upper tail-coverts white; 

 inner primaries narrowly bordered on inner web and tipped with white; 

 base of outer webs white; secondaries tipped with white, which becomes 

 broader toward the innermost. Forehead, lores, cheeks, throat, axil- 

 lars, under wing coverts, sides of body, and flanks white; a line from 

 upi^er mandible to lower anterior border of eye, continued posteriorly 

 through and including ear-coverts, black, meeting a narrower black 

 band extending across lower border of nape, and a broad black j)ec- 

 toral band, the latter more extensive on sides of chest; an interocular 

 crescent-shaped black band borders the white forehead and separates 

 it from a white line over eyes, ear-coverts, and passing across nape as 

 a conspicuous nuchal baud (leaving the dark crown patch entirely 

 surrounded by a white ring, and the latter isolated from other white 

 markings); a white band below the black pectoral one passes abruptly 

 into cinnamon buff on the abdomen and under tail-coverts, that of 

 the former extending up on sides of body to the black pectoral band, 



' Geogr. Distrib. C'harad., pi. vii. 



