32 CUKSORIIDJE. 



3. PLUVIANUS. ^ 



Pluvianus, Vieill. Analyse, p. 55 (1816) P. segyptius. 



Cursorius, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 978 P. segyptius. 



Hyas, Gloger in Froriep's Notizen, xvi. p. 279 (1827) . . P. aegyptius. 



Ammoptila, Swainson, Classif. B. ii. p. 364 (1837) P. segyptius. 



Cheilodromas, Eiipp. Mus. Senckenb. ii. p. 208 (1837) . . P. segyptius. 



Range. The greater part of West Africa, from the Coanza River 

 to Senegambia and across to N.E. Africa and Egypt, occurring as a 

 straggler in the countries of the Mediterranean. 



1. Pluvianus aegyptius. 



Charadrius segyptius, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 254 (1766). 

 Pluvian du Senegal, D'Aubenton, PL Enl. ix. pi. 918. 

 Le Pluvian, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 104 (1781). 

 Black-headed Plover, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 217 (1785). 

 Charadrius melanocephalus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 692 (1788). 

 Green-headed Plover, Lath. Gen. Syn., Suppl. ii. p. 320 (1801). 

 Charadrius at'ricanus, Lath. Gen. Syn., Suppl. ii. p. lxvii (1801). 

 Pluvianus melanocephalus, Vieill. N. Diet, d Hist. Nat. xxvii. p. 129 



(1818) ; id. Gal. Ois. ii. pi. 233 (1825). 

 Pluvianus chlorocephalus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvii. p. 130 



(1818). 

 Cursor charadrioides, Way I. Syst. Av. Cursorius, sp. 6, p. 81 (1827). 

 Ammoptila charadrioides, Swains. Classif. 2?. ii. p. 364 (1837). 

 Cheilodromas melanocephalus, Rilpp. Mus. Senckenb. ii. p. 208 (1837 : 



Egypt and Nubia). 

 Pluvianus aegyptius, Strickl. Ann. §■ May. N. H. vii. p. 37 (1841), 

 xiii. p. 39 (1844) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 536 (1844) ; Eiipp. Syst. 

 Uebers. p. 117 (1845) ; Strickl. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 221 ; Reichenb. Av. 

 Syst. Nat., Gall. p. xxx, Taf. 374. figs. 2120-2123 (1852) ; Bp. C. R. 

 xliii. p. 419 (1856) ; Hartl. Orn. West-Afr. p. 209 (1857) ; Taylor, 

 Ibis, 1859, p. 52 (Egypt); Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 268 (Bissao; 

 Gaboon ; Casainanse) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1862, p. 279 (Jordan Valley) ; 

 Mont. t. c. p. 336 (River Coanza) ; Adams, Ibis, 1864, p. 29 (Egypt) ; 

 Antin. Cat. descr. Ucc. p. 99 (1864) ; Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 62 

 (1865); Deyl. et Gerbe, Orn. Fur. ii. p. 121 (1867: Spain); Loche, 

 Expl. Sci. Alqer., Ois. ii. p. 276 (1867) ; Taylor, Lbis, 1867, p. 68 

 (Egypt) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1868, p. 322 (Palestine) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 

 iii. p. 18, no. 10035 (1871) ; Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 234 (1872) ; 

 Dresser, B. Eur. vii. p. 521, pi. 527 (1878); Hartl. Abh. not. 

 Verein. Brem. vii. p. 120 (1881 : Lado) ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. 

 p. 600 (1882: Khartoum); Shelley, Ibis, 1883, p. 560 (Shonga); 

 Tristr. Faun, fy Flor. Palest, p. 13] (1884) : Koenig, J.f. O. 1888, 

 p. 265, 1893, p. 79 (Algeria). 

 Pluvianus aegyptiacus, Brehm, J. f. O. 1853, Extraheft, p. 102 ; 



Heuyl. Syst. Uebers. p. 54 (1856). 

 Hyas aegyptia, Cab. J.f O. 1854, p. 70. 

 Hyas aegyptiaca, Brehm, J. f O. 1856, p. 329. 

 Cursorius aegyptius, Schl. Mus. Pay-Bas, Cursores, p. 14 (1865 : 



Nile). 

 Pluvianus segypticus, Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. pt. 1, p. 976 (1873 : 

 Egypt, south from the Delta to Nubia, rarer on the Blue and 

 White Niles, and Djur River, 8° 25' 30"). 

 Hyas aegyptius, Heine $■ Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 339 

 (1890 : Kordofan, Senaar). 



