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Ital. 1st Resoc. p. 574 (1889), 2nd Resoc. p. 044 (1890), 3rd ltesoe. 

 p. 507 (1891); Chamberl. Auk, vi. p. 217 (1S8'J : Godhavn, S. 

 Greenland); Brusina, Motr. etc. (Orn. Crontica), p. 86 (1890); 

 Evans, Ibis, 1891, p. 79 (incubation); FrivaUlsky, Arcs Hung. 

 p. 122 (1891) ; Hayerup, B. Greenl. p. 56 (1891: breeds along 

 whole coast) ; Buckley § Harvie-Broicn, J'ertebr. Faun. Orkney 

 Is. p. 203 (1891 : resident) ; Madardsz, Erliiut. Ausst. TTngar. 

 VSg. p. 103 (1891) ; Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. part xx. (1891) ; 

 Buckley is- liar viz- Brown, J'ertebr. Faun. Argyll, p. 165 (1892) ; 

 Fuyton, Ibis, 1892, p. 471 (Mogador) ; Berkeley James, New List 

 Chilian B. p. 11 (1892) ; Meade- Waldo, Ibis, 1893, p. 203 (Canary 

 Is.) ; Blayy, t. c. p. 355 (Shetland Is.) ; Allen, Auk, x. p. 124 

 (1893) ; 1'razak, Orn. Jahrb. iii. p. 23 (1893 : Bohemia) ; Pearson 

 £ Bid-well, Ibis, 1894, p. 233 (N. Norway ; breeding). 



/Egialitis septentrionalis, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 548 (1831). 



lliaticula aiinulata, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 65 (1840J; Riijjp. Syst. 

 Uebers. p. 118 (1845 : Egypt & Red Sea). 



Hiaticula torquata, Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 68 (1844). 



lliaticula hiaticula, Lie/it. Nomenel. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 94 (1854). 



lliaticula arabs, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 94 (1854). 



? Charadrius hoineyeri, Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 268. 



iEgialitis auritus, Meugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 56 (1856). 



yEgialitis hiaticuloides, Heuyl. Syst. Uebers. p. 56 (1856). 



-Linalitis intermedins (nee Menetr.), Gurnet/, Ibis, 1868, p. 255; 

 Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 661 (1884). 



Pluvialis hiaticula, Droste, Voyelic. Borkum, p. 150 (1869). 



Charadrius hiaticula major, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 20, pi. 26. 

 tig. 6 (1885); id. Geogr. JDistr. Charadr. p. 126 (^1888). 



Adult male. General colour above light brown ; wing-coverts 

 like the back, the greater series tipped with white ; bastard-wiug, 

 primary-coverts, and quills brown, the primaries dark brown on the 

 outer webs and round the tips, with more or less white towards 

 the base of the inner webs ; the shafts white, increasing in extent 

 on the inner ones and forming a distinct patch on the outer web ; 

 the brown colour diminishing, and the white gradually extending, 

 till the inner secondaries become pure white, the innermost long 

 secondaries brown like the back ; lateral upper tail-coverts white, 

 the centre ones brown like the back ; tail-feathers pale brown, 

 tipped with white, with a sub-terminal black bar; the white 

 increasing towards the outer feathers, the penultimate one being 

 white with a pale brown inner web and a narrow black sub- 

 terminal bar ; the outermost tail-feather pure white ; crown of head 

 pale brown, separated from the white frontal band by a broad 

 band of black ; a narrow line across the base of the forehead, 

 lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts black, with a narrow white- 

 st ripe from above the fore part of the eye to above the ear-coverts ; 

 cheeks and sides of neck white, continued in a collar round the 

 ■bid-Deck, followed by an ill-denned blackish collar across tho 

 upper mantle ; under surface of body pure white, with a black 

 collar across the fore-neck, widening on the sides of the chest ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillarics white, the lower primary-coverts 

 pale ashy, like the quill-lining : " bill black at the end. orange for 

 the rest of its extent ; feet orange ; claws black ; iris brown *' 



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