17. iioi'i,(ii'Ti:i:rs. 



L59 



rides of the neck and a collar round the hind-neck descending 

 on the sides of the foro-neck ; throat, centre of fore-neck, and entire 

 breast Mack, descending on to the sides of the flanks ; sides of body, 

 abdomen, under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, and axilluries 

 pure white ; quill-lining black : hill and feet black ; iris scarlet or 

 crimson. Total length 12 inches, culmen l - 25, wing 8"2, tail 3 - 9, 

 tarsus 2-85. 



Hah. S.E. Europe; Palestine; N.E. Africa to Masai-land and 

 the Tana district, as far asMamboio ; West Africa from Senegambia 

 to the Niger. 



a. Juv. sk. Island of Milo, Crete, Grecian 



Archipelago. 

 6, Ad.sk. Sea of Galilee, Palestine. 



e, d. Ad. st. Egypt. 



c All. sk. Egypt, 



/-, jr. Ad. sk. Egypt, Feb., March (G. E. 



Shell vii). 

 h. 3 ad.sk. Lower Egypt (Stafford Allen). 



i, k. J $ ad. sk. Upper Egypt (7/. Rogers). 

 /, in. Ad. sk. Cairo. 



n. Ad. sk. Assiout. 



o. 3 ad.sk. Lake Ashangi, Abyssinia, May. 



p. 5 ad. sk. Ailat, Samhar, June 29. 



q. J ad. sk. Amba, Aug. 21 ( W. Jesse). 



r. ($ ad. sk. Cialalaka, Slioa, May 28. 



s. $ ad. sk. Lado, Equatorial Africa, 



Oct. 10. 

 /. $ ad. sk. Lake Jipi, Aug. 



", v. Ad. sk. Mamboio (Sir J. Kirk). 



10, Ad. sk. Gazelle River. 



' . \d. sk. ( ianibia. 



//. Ad. sk. Dakar, Senegal, Jan. (Z. 



I.ui/htise). 

 i. Ad. sk. Dakar, Senegal, Jan. (L. 



Latjlaise). 

 a'. Skeleton. 



Gould Coll. 



Canon Tristram [C.J. 

 Sir J. Bowrinj* [P.J. 



G. Turnbull, 



[P.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Ksq. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Capt. R. H. Penton 



fp.J. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[CI 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Turin Museum [E.J. 

 Emin Pasha [P.J. 



F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 F. Bohndorff[C.l. 

 Old Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Purchased. 



2. Hoplopterus ventralis. 



Pluvier arme' du Senegal, Brim. Orn. y. p. 86, pi. vii. fig. 2 (17G0). 

 Charadrius ventralis, M'ai/l. Syst. Ai\, Cbaradrius, p. 59, sp, 11 



(1827); Gray -\ Hardw. Ulustr. Lid. Zool. i. pi. 03 (1832). 

 Cbaradrius duvaucelii, Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 333 (1828 : Calcutta) ; 



id. Traite, p. 645 (1831) ; id. Compl. Buff., Ois. iii. p. 40< | 1887). 

 Cliaradriusbicolor, Temm. PL Col. v. livr. 89 (1832: Bengal). 

 Philomachus ventralis vel spinosus, ILodys. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., 



GraU. pi. 48. no. 227 ; id. in Gray's Zoo/. Misc. p. Hi ( 1>44 ). 

 Boplopterus ventralis, Gray, List Grail. Brit. Bftu.Ta.64 (1>44: 



Nepal); id. Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs.-p. 182 (1846); 



lihith, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 260 (1849: Dehra Dhoon) ; 



toeichmb. Grail, tab. eexcix. tips. 2428-29 (18o2) ; Hp. C. R. 



