150 CHARADRIID.E. 



t. c. p. 465 (Mysore) ; Terry, t. c. p. 480 (Palani Hills) ; Murray, 

 Vertebr. Faun. Sind, p. 228 (1884) ; Sivinhoe $ Barnes, Ibis, 1885, 

 p. 133 (Mhow distr., breeding) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1886, p. 167 (Mus- 

 cat) ; Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 316 (1888) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. 

 Charadr. p. 184 (1888) ; St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 176 (S. Afghanis- 

 tan) ; Heine §• Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 334 (1890) ; Oates, 

 ed. Hume's Nests 8f Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 340 (1890); Sharpe, Set. 

 Results 2nd Yark. Miss., Aves, p. 139 (1891: Srinagar). 

 Chsetusia goensis, Tytler, Ibis, 1868, p. 203 (Simla to Masuri). 



Adult male. General colour above light ashy brown, glossed with 

 a metallic shade of oily green, and showing a slight violet iridescence 

 on the mantle ; lower back dusky brown ; sides of lower back, 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, and base of tail pure white, followed by a 

 shade of light brown before a very broad black band across the 

 terminal third of the tail, followed by a broad band at the end of 

 the tail-feathers, brown on the two centre ones and white on the 

 rest ; wing-coverts glossy violet, the greater series light ashy brown 

 like the back, the outer ones white at the ends ; the greater coverts 

 pure white with ashy bases; bastard- wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills black ; the secondaries black, with white at the base of the 

 inner web, increasing towards the inner secondaries, which gradually 

 become pure white, the innermost ones brown like the back ; crown 

 of head and nape black, slightly crested ; lores and feathers below 

 the eye black, as well as the cheeks, throat, and upper breast ; from 

 the back of the eye a broad band of white extending over the ear- 

 coverts and down the neck, the sides of the neck being white, and 

 extending round the hind neck in a somewhat incomplete collar, 

 broken by blackish feathers in the centre and slightly tinged with 

 grey above the mantle ; sides of fore neck, chest, and entire 

 under surface of body below the upper breast pure white, including 

 the under wing- and tail-coverts: "bill black, reddish at base; 

 wattles rosy -red ; feet pale yellow ; claws dark horny-brown ; iris 

 brown" (C T. Bingham). Total length 13-5 inches, culmen P35, 

 wing 9 - l, tail 4-4, tarsus 2-95. 



Adult female. Similar in colour to the male. Total length 1 3 

 inches, culmen 1*3, wing 9, tail 4 # 5, tarsus 2*9. 



Young. Distinguished from the adults by having pale sandy 

 margins to the feathers ; the crown of the head light brown, black 

 on the sides and hinder crown ; the throat white, as well as the 

 sides of the face ; the sides of the head from the hinder ear-coverts 

 dusky black, extending over the lower throat and chest. 



This specimen above described is from Mhow, procured by Colonel 

 Swinhoe in October. The wattles are scarcely perceptible. By the 

 following spring the head and throat become black. 



Hah. From Persia and Mesopotamia, N. Arabia (Muscat), to 

 Afghanistan and throughout the whole of the Indian Peninsula, 

 east to Assam, and south to Ceylon. 



a. Ad. sk. " Roodklaneh Doozdee, a river Gould Coll. 



in Roodan," Mav 27 (Keith 



Abbott). 

 b,c,d. Ad.sk. Mesopotamia (Commander Jo?ies). Euphrates Exped. 

 e. Ad. sk. Muscat. Colonel Miles [P.]. 



