236 CHAEADEIID^:. 



Vertebr. Faun. Outer Hebr. p. 125 (1888) ; Koenig, J.f. O. 1888, 



p. 83 (Tunis); Meade-Waldo, Ibis, 1889, p. 515 (Canary Is.); 



Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 521 (1889) ; Gigl. 1st Resoc. Avif. 



Ital. p. 569 (1889) ; 2nd Resoc. p. 561 (1890) ; 3rd Resoc. p. 511 



(1891); Brusina, Motr. etc. (Orn. Oraatica), p. 86 (1890); 



Seebohm, Ibis, 1890, p. 403 (Ireland) ; Heine 8f Reichen. Nomencl. 



Mus. Hein. p. 336 (1890: Lapland); Olphe-Gall. Contr. Faun. 



Orn. Eur. Occid. fasc. xiii. p. 23 (1890) ; Reiser, Vogeh. Landesm. 



Sarajevo, p. 106 (1891); Evans, Ibis, 1891, p. 79 (incubation); 



Buckley ty Harvie-Brown, Vertebr. Faun. Orkneys, p. 203 (1891) ; 



iid. Vertebr. Faun. Arqyll, p. 166 (1892) ; Macph. Vertebr. Faun. 



Lake-land, p. 348 (1892); Meade- Waldo, Ibis, 1893, p. 203 



(Canaries) ; Grant, Bull. B. 0. C. i. p. lv (1893 : Scotland, nesting) ; 



id. op. cit. iii. p. iii (1894) ; Whitaker, Ibis, 1894, p. 99 (Tunisj ; 



Pearson fy Bidwill, t. c. p. 232 (N. Norway, breeding - ). 

 Pluvialis morinellus, Macuill. Man. Brit. B. ii. p. 50 (1840) ; id. 



Brit. B.iv.y- 104(1850). 

 Charadrius (Eudromias) morinellus, Middend.Reis. Sibir., Zooh p. 211 



(1851 : Taimyr R., June, 73|°; Bogauida, May, Aug.). 

 Morinellus sibir'icus, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 417 ( 1856) ; Schl. Mus. Pays- 



Bas, Cursores, p. 46 (1865) ; Degl. 8f Gerbe, Orn. Eur. ii. p. 129 



(1867) ; Loche, Expl. Sci. Alger., Ois. ii. p. 265 (1867). 



Adult male. General colour ashy brown, streaked with sandy buff, 

 with which colour the feathers are edged ; lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts pale ashy brown, with lighter fringes, and a 

 slightly indicated dusky sub-terminal shade ; wing-coverts like the 

 back, and margined with sandy butf in the same manner ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, the first primary 

 with a broad white shaft, the outer web also white ; the other 

 primaries blackish along the outer web and at the ends ; the second- 

 aries fringed with whitish, the innermost edged witli sandy buff 

 and resembling the back ; crown of head blackish brown, slightly 

 varied with sandy-buff margins to the feathers ; base of forehead 

 and lores white, mottled with black spots ; a broad white eyebrow, 

 extending as far back as the sides of the nape ; sides of face and 

 ear-coverts white, spotted and streaked with dusky brown, the ear- 

 coverts brown along the upper and hinder margin ; throat white, 

 with dusky streaks on the lower throat ; sides of neck and a broad 

 band across the fore-neck light ashy brown, washed with sandy 

 buff, and bordered on its lower edge by a narrow band of black ; 

 this black band followed by a band of white across the chest ; 

 breast and sides of the body orange-chestnut ; the centre of the 

 lower breast and abdomen black ; lower abdomen, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts pure white ; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and 

 quill-lining pale smoky grey. Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 0*75, 

 wing 5*8, tail 2-5, tarsus 1*4. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but less brightly coloured 

 and the black patch on the abdomen not so strongly developed. Total 

 length 8-8 inches, culmen 0*75, wing 5-75, tail 2-65, tarsus 1-25. 



Adults in winter ■plumage. Somewhat similar on the upper surface 

 to the summer plumage, but the head not so blackish, the crown 

 being brown with sandy-buff streaks ; sides of face ashy fulvous, 



