26. ochtiiodromus. 233 



Eudromias veredua, Harting, Ihis, 1870, p. 209, id. vi. ; Swinh. 

 P. Z. .S'. 1871 , p. 403 (Shanghai ; Pekin) ; Wakl. Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 viii. p. 88 (1872: Makassar); SurinA. Ibis, 1873, pp. 305, 424 

 (Cheloo); Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 315 (1874); Prjev. in Roivley's 

 Orn. Misc. ii. p. 434 (1877: S.E. Mongolia, breeding;, June); 

 Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. 11'. i. p. 187 (1877), ii. p. 197 

 (1878)'; Salcad. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 82 (Amboma) ; id. Ann. Mus. Gen. 

 xiv. p. 666 (1879: Kei Isl.) ; id. Voy. ' Challenger J ii. Birds, p. 64 

 (1881) ; Boyd. C'onsp. Av. Imp. Runts, p. 73 (1884: Samarkand); 

 Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B. p. 19 (1888: Port Darling; Port 

 Essington ; Wide Bay distr. ; Richmond and Clarence Rivers; New- 

 South Wales) ; Ererett, Journ. Straits Branch As. Soc. 1889, 

 p. 204 ; Heine 8f Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 336 (1890 : 

 Puerto Princesa, Palawan). 



Charadrius asiaticus (nee Pall.), Finsch, Ibis, 1872, p. 144 (Saigon) ; 

 Rosenb. Reist. naar Geelvinkb. p. 9 (1875). 



Adult in summer plumage. Similar to O. rjeoffroyi, but with a 

 longer and more slender bill, and distinguished by its smoky -brown 

 axillaries, under wing-coverts, and quill-linings. Upper parts 

 uniform brown, with slightly indicated rufous edgings to many of 

 the feathers; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dark brown, 

 the first primary only having a white shaft, and no white present 

 on the inner webs of the quills ; the secondaries also uniform dark 

 brown, with an obsolete white fringe to the tips ; innermost second- 

 aries like the back ; tail-feathers brown, with white tips and a 

 sub-terminal shade of darker brown, the outer feather white along 

 the outer web ; crown of head brown like the back, slightly washed 

 with rufous, as also the hind-neck, where, however, there is no 

 distinct collar as in 0. rjeoffroyi ; the forehead white to the middle of 

 the eye ; eyebrow, sides of face, and throat white : lower throat, 

 fore-neck, and chest bright chestnut, extending down the sides of 

 the upper breast and followed by a horse-shoe mark of black ; 

 breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts pure white ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries dark smoky brown, with ashy-whitish tips to 

 the feathers; quill-lining also dark smoky brown: "bill deep 

 olive-brown, blacker on the terminal portion ; feet light brownish 

 flesh-colour ; toes washed with grey, blackish on joints ; claws 

 black ; eyelids greyish black " (It. Swinhoe). Total length 8-5 

 inches, culmen 1, wing 6-5, tail 2-4, tarsus 1-75. 



Adult in winter plumage. Differs from the summer plumage in 

 wanting the rufous chest-band. Above dark brown, including the 

 crown of the head ; forehead and eyebrow isabelline white, the 

 hinder part of trie latter shaded with sandy buff, which colour also 

 pervades the sides of the face and sides of neck, and forms a faint 

 collar round the hind-neck; throat isabelline white ; lower throat, 

 fore-neck, and chest pale brown ; remainder of under surface of 

 body white ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and quill-lining smoky 

 brown. 



Il<d>. Breeds in Mongolia, wintering in the Moluccas and Aus- 

 tralia. 



