250 CHARADRIID.aE. 



4. Oxyechus forbesi. 



? Le Petit Pluvier des Indes, Briss. Orn. 8vo, ii. p. 234 (1763). 



? Indian Plover, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supjil. i. p. 254 (1787). 



^Egialitis tricollaris (nee Vieill.), Marti. Orn. West-Afr. p. 21(3 



(1857; Elmina; Gaboon); id. J.f. O. 1861, p. 269 (Bissao) ; 



Shelley 8f Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 293 (Cape Coast) ; W. A. Forbes, 



Ibis, 1883, p. 526 (Shonga). 

 yEgialitis indica, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 25 (1865 : Nepal, 



error) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 382 (Fantee). 

 iEgialitis forbesi, Shelley, Ibis, 1883, p. 560, pi. xiv. 

 iEgialitis nigris, Harting, Zool. 1883, p. 418. 

 Charadrius forbesi, Seebohm, Geogr. I)istr. Charadr. p. 136 (1888). 



Adult female (type of species). Similar to 0. tricollaris, but 

 larger ; forehead brown, with only a small whitish spot on the 

 lores ; sides of face brown, as also the throat, the chin alone being 

 ashy whitish ; the bands on the breast brown instead of black, the 

 white intermediate collar not continued round to the mantle ; the 

 eyebrow and collar round the nape buffy white, not very distinct. 

 The best characteristic, however, lies in the outer tail-feathers, which 

 have three or four black bars : " bill black, pink at base ; feet very 

 pale pink ; iris grey-brown ; a broad scarlet eyelid " ( W. A. Forbes) : 

 clear pink (G. E. Shelley). Total length 8-4 inches, culmen 0*7, 

 wing 5, tail 2*7, tarsus 12. 



Bab. West Africa from Senegambia to Gaboon. 



a. Ad. sk. Cape Coast Castle, Feb. 2 (T. E. Shelley Coll. 



Buckley). 



b. Ad. sk. Shonga, Elver Niger, Dec. ( W. Forbes Coll. (Type of 



A. Forbes). species.) 



31. .EGIALEUS. 



Type. 

 yEgialeus, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xviii (1852). iE. semipalmatus. 



Range. North America, wintering in South America. 



1. -ZEgialeus semipalmatus. 



Tringa hiaticula, Wilson, Amer. Orn. vii. p. 65, pi. 59. fig. 3 (1813). 

 Charadrius semipalmatus, Bp. Obs. Wilson, 1825, no. 219 ; Kaup, 



Isis, 1825, p. 1376, pi. 14; Audub. B. Amer. pi. 330 (c. 1826) ; 



Wagl. Syst. Av., Cbaradrius, p. 63, sp. 23 (1827); Sivains. Faun. 



Bor.-Amer., Birds, p. 367 (1831 : Hayes River, lat. 57° N.) ; 



Jard. ed. Wilson's Amer. Orn. ii. p. 355 (1832) ; Nutt. Man. ii. 



p. 24 (1834) ; Audub. Orn. Biogr. iv. p. 256 (1838), v. p. 579 (1839) ; 



id. B. Amer. 8vo, v. p. 218, pi. 320 (1842) ; Lembeye, Av. Cuba, 



p, 107 (1850) ; Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. vii. p. 308 (1860: 



Cuba) ; Thienem. Abbild. Vogeleiern, Taf. lix. (1856) ; Schl. Mus. 



Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 30 (1865 : Labrador) ; Leot. Ois. Trinid. 



p. 392 (1866) ; Sundev. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1869, p. 588 



(S. Bartholomew), p. 602' (Porto Rico) ; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1870, 



p. 588 (Trinidad) ; Gray, Band-l. B. iii. p. 16, no. 10009 (1871) ; 



Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 123 (1888). 



