260 



CHARADKIID^. 



(J. Macgillivray). Total length 7 inches, culmen - 7, wing 5*1, 

 tail 2-3, tarsus 1"05. 



Adult female. Not distinguishable from the male. Total length 

 7 # 7 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 5-1, tail 2 - 25, tarsus 1. 



Young. Paler than the adults, and distinguished by the pale 

 margins of ashy butf to the feathers of the upper surface ; ear- 

 coverts brownish black ; no black band on the fore part of the 

 crown ; the white forehead and eyebrow tinged with buff ; band on 

 the fore-neck brown, tinged with buff in the middle, the sides of the 

 collar blackish. 



Mr. Seebohm has separated the British Ringed Plover as 2E. major, 

 but every link between this large form and the ordinary jE. hiati- 

 cola is found in a series of specimens. 



Bab. From Greenland and Cumberland Gulf in Arctic America, 

 throughout Europe generally, wintering in Africa down to the Cape 

 Colony. Eastwards to Lake Baikal, and extending rarely to 

 N.W. India. Accidental in other countries (Barbados, Chili, &c). 



a. 5 ad. sk. 



b-f. Ad. sk. 

 <j. S ^d. sk. 



/;. Ad. sk. 

 i-m. <$ 2 ad. sk. 

 n. Ad. sk. 

 o-v. J 2 ad. sk. 



iff. 2 ad. sk. 



x. $ juv. sk. 



?/, z. Imm. sk. 



a'. Juv. sk. 

 b'. Imm. sk. 

 c'-f. 6 2 ad. ; 



g', h'. Pull. sk. 

 i'-p'. d 2 ad. et 



imm. sk. 

 q'. Pull. sk. 

 r', .<?'. Ad. sk. 

 t'-v. Ad. et 



imm. sk. 

 w'-n" . S 2 ad- 



et imm. sk. 

 o 1 '. 2 ad. sk. 



%>", 2 imm. sk. 



q"-s", Ad. et 



imm. sk. 

 t". 2 ad. sk. 



a", v". Imm. sk. 



Twin Glacier Valley, Aug. 4 



(H. W.Feilden). 

 Greenland. 

 Lichtenfels, S. Greenland, 



Aug. 17. _ 

 Great Britain. 

 Orkney Islands. 

 Scotland [R. G. TV. E.). 

 "VVarkwor th , Northumberland, 



June &Nov. (0. S.). 

 Holy Island, Northumberland, 



June 19 (P. Godma»). 

 Newbigsjen, Northumberland, 



Aug-. 24. 

 Lincolnshire, Sept. 5. 



Salthouse, Norfolk, June 15. 

 Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Sept. 19. 

 Dungeness, Kent, March, May. 



Piomney Marsh, Kent, May, 



Aug., Sept. 

 Lydd, May. 

 Sussex. 

 Brighton, Aug., Sept. 



Pagham, Sussex. 



Kingsbury, Middlesex, Aug. 21 



(J. E. Hurting). 

 Kingsbury, autumn (J. E. 



Hurting). 

 Carmarthen, Wales. 



(Tvpe 

 St. Bride's, S. Wales, Dec. 12. 



Heliogoland, Sept 2G. 



Voy. H.M.S. « Alert.' 



Dr. P. B. Sharpe 



[P.]. 

 Montagu Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Salvin-Godnian Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



J. H. Caton Haigh, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Colonel Irby [P.]. 

 Goidd Coll. 



Dr. P. B. Sbarpe 



[P.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



Montagu Coll. 

 of C. torquata, Leach.) 

 Hon. W. Edwardes 



L P.]. 



F. Nicholson, Esq. 

 [P.]. 



