1S8 



CHARADRIID.E. 



crown of head like the hack, but more minutely mottled and more 

 hoary white ; forehead and a broad eyebrow white, extending down 

 the sides of the neck, and forming a large patch on the sides of the 

 upper breast ; lores, sides of face, ear-coverts, and under surface of 

 body black, excepting the abdomen and under tail-coverts, which 

 are pure white ; thighs white, streaked with black ; under wing- 

 coverts white ; axillaries black, with slightly indicated fringes of 

 brown at the tips ; quills below dusky, with white on the inner 

 webs ; lower primary-coverts pale ashy : " bill, legs, feet, and claws 

 black; iris dark hazel" (H. Seebohm). Total length 105 inches, 

 culmen 1*3, wing 8*1, tail 2 - 9, tarsus L8. 



Adult female in breeding-plumage. Not so strongly mottled with 

 black on the upper surface as the male, and consequently rather 

 browner, especially on the head ; the black on the face and under- 

 pays not so much developed, these parts being mottled with 

 irregular black markings. Total length 11 inches, culmen 1-3, 

 wing 8, tail 2-9, tarsus l - 8. 



Adtdt in winter plumage. Differs chiefly from the summer 

 plumage in wanting the black on the face and breast, but, from the 

 absence of the black mottling on the back, the whole upper surface 

 appears more uniform, being ashy brown with narrow whitish 

 edgings to the feathers, before which is a blackish sub-terminal 

 shade ; the lores are white, but the base of the forehead is like the 

 crown ; a line of white appears above and below the eye, but the 

 white eyebrow is scarcely visible above the ear-coverts, which are 

 dingy blackish; the sides of the face white, streaked with dusky, the 

 throat and underparts pure white, the lower throat and fore-neck 

 being pale ashy brown, slightly mottled with dusky markings ; the 

 under wing-coverts are white, except the lower primary-coverts, 

 which are dusky ashy, and the axillaries are Hack. 



Young. Like the winter plumage of the adults, and always to be 

 distinguished by the black axillaries, though it is spangled with 

 golden buff on the upper surface, so as to resemble a young Golden 

 Plover ( Charadrius pluvialis). 



Hob. Nearly the whole of the World, breeding in summer on the 

 tundras or barren grounds, and visiting the extreme south of both 

 the Eastern and Western hemispheres in winter. 



a. Ad. sestiv. sk. 



b. Ad. sestiv. sk. 



c. Juv. sk. 



d. Juv. sk. 



e. c? juv. sk. 



/, 



g. Ad. sestiv. 



h. Ad. hiem. 



i. Juv. sk. 

 /.-. <$ juv. sk. 

 I, m. $ sestiv. sk. 



Great Britain. 

 Great Britain. 

 St. Andrew's, N.B., Nov. (R. 



G. W. R.). 

 Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, 



Oct. 

 Lincolnshire. 



Cambridgeshire (0. Salvin). 



Yarmouth, Sept. 23. 

 Yarmouth, May (J. E. Hurt- 

 ing). 



Gould Coll. 

 Montagu Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



J. H. Caton-Haigh, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



