I'M CHARADRIID.K. 



Basse-Cochinchine, Bull. Agric. Cochin. (3) i. p. 146 (1879) : Oates, 

 Str. F. x. p. 238 (1882: Pegu); id. Hcmdb. B. Brit. Burm. ii. 

 p. 372 (1883) ; Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 315 (1888 : Manipur) ; Oates, 

 Ibis, 1888, p. 73 (Bbamo) ; Be la Touche, Ibis, 1892, p. 496 (Foo- 

 chow, spring). 

 Chsettusia cinerea, Blxjih, Ibis, 1867, p. 165. 



Adult male. General colour above light brown, with a slight 

 bronzy gloss ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and base of tail white ; 

 terminal third of the tail black, forming a broad band, the tips 

 white with a slight sub-terminal shade of brown ; the black band 

 vanishing towards the outer tail-feather, which is entirely white ; 

 wing-coverts brown like the back, but a little paler ; the median 

 coverts with narrow white tips, except the outer ones, which are 

 pure white ; greater coverts nearly entirely white, with brown at 

 the extreme base, increasing in extent on the inner ones ; bastard- 

 wing dark brown ; primary-coverts and quills black ; secondaries 

 pure white, the outer ones dusky near the ends, the inner ones 

 externally light brown, and the innermost brown like the back ; 

 crown of head, nape, and hind-neck, as well as the entire sides of 

 the face and neck, throat, fore-neck, and chest light pearly grey, 

 with a narrow black band across the upper breast ; chin rather paler 

 grey ; remainder of under surface of body, including the under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries, pure white: "basal two-thirds of bill 

 deep yellow, the terminal third black ; feet dull yellow, claws 

 black; edges of eyelids and lappets deep yellow " (£". W. Oates). 

 Total length 14 inches, culmeu 1*4, wing 9 - 2, tail 4, tarsus 2-65. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in plumage. Total length 14-5 

 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 9-4, tail 4-2, tarsus 2 # 7. 



Adults in winter plumage. Differs from the summer plumage in 

 having the grey of the head and throat washed with brown, espe- 

 ciallv on the chest ; the black band on the chest obscured by ashy 

 or whitish tips to the feathers. 



Young. Distinguished from the adults by the want of the black 

 band across the upper part of the breast ; the entire head and 

 throat brown, instead of grey, the centre of the chin and upper 

 throat white, with dusky streaks on the sides of the throat. 



Hab. From Corea and the Southern Japanese islands to Mongolia 

 and Northern China, wintering in Southern China, the Indo- 

 Burmese countries, and N.E. Bengal. 



a. Ad. sk. Darjeeling. India Museum. 



b, c. Ad sk. Dipur Bheel, Assam, Nov. Tweeddale Coll. 



(A. W. Chennell). 

 d, e, f. Ad. sk. Purneah. Pinwill Coll. 



a. Ad. st. Calcutta (E. Blytli). India Museum. 



h-.v <S £ ad. sk. Calcutta. Oct. to Jan. (A. O. Hume Coll. 



H. 8r W. T. Blanford). 

 y. z. Ad. sk. Dacca. Hume Coll. 



a'. 2 ad. sk. Faridpur, Feb. 4 (J. R. Hume Coll. 



Cripps). 

 b'-f. Ad. sk. Manipur, March {A. 0. H.). Hume Coll. 



q'-k'. 3 2 a d- sk. Tonghoo, Nov. to Jan. Tweeddale Coll. 



{R. G. W. R.). 



