32. J3GIALTTIS. 207 



Pluvialia fluviatilis, Droste, Vogelw. Borkum, p. 15-3 (1889). 



yEji'ialitis microrhynehus, ltidyw. Am. Nat. viii. p. 109 (1674: San 



Francisco). 

 ^Egialitis alexandrinu9 (nee Linn.), Durnf. Ibis, 1874, p. 308 (N. 



Frisian Isl.) ; Reichen. J.f. O. 1889, p. 20.3 (Quilimane). 

 ^Eirialitis hiaticula (nee Linn.), Ramsay, PYoc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. 



p. 304 (1877 : Port Moresby), ii. p. 107 (1878 : S. New Guinea), 



iii. p. 270 (1870 : Laloki Paver) ; id. Tab. List Austr. B. p. 10 



(1888: N.S.W.). 

 iEgialitis jerdoni, Leg ye, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 39; id. B. Ceylon, 



p. 0-16 (1880); Salvad. Orn. Papuasia etc. iii. p. 303 (1862); 



Biddulph, Ibis, 1882, p. 287 (Gilgit, May, Sept.) ; Davidson, Str. 



F. x. p. 275 (1882: W. Kandeiah) ; Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 315 



(1888) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B. p. 19 (1888) ; Salvad. Agg, 



Orn. Papuasia etc. iii. p. 200 (1891) ; id. Ann. Mus. Gen. (2) xii. 



p. 75 (1801 : Sumatra) ; Leyge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. 1892, p. 41. 

 Charadrius minor jerdoni, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 132 



(1888J. 



Adult male. General colour above light brown, a little darker on 

 tho rump and central upper tail-coverts ; sides of rump and lateral 

 upper tail-coverts pure white ; wing-coverts like the back, the 

 feathers round the bend of the wing darker brown ; bastard-wing 

 feathers blackish with white tips; primary-coverts blackish ; primary 

 quills blackish, internally lighter brown, with dark shafts to all the 

 primaries except the first, where it is white ; secondaries dusky, lighter 

 and more ashy brown internally, inner secondaries smoky brown, 

 with a good deal of white on both webs, the long inner secondaries 

 like the back ; tail-feathers ashy brown, tipped with white, and 

 with a broad sub-terminal black bar, the outer feathers more distinctly 

 edged with white, the two outermost almost entirely white, with a 

 black patch on the inner web corresponding to the sub-terminal bar 

 on the rest of the feathers ; base of forehead, lores, feathers above 

 and below the eye, and ear-coverts black ; a broad frontal band of 

 white, followed by another broad band of black above the eye, which 

 is again succeeded by another black line, which widens out above 

 the eye and forms a distinct eyebrow ; hinder crown as far as the 

 nape ashy brown ; round the neck a broad white collar, continuous 

 with the white throat, and followed by a broad band of black on the 

 lower hind-neck, and continued right across the fore-neck, widening 

 out on the sides ; cheeks, throat, and under surface of body pure 

 white, including the under wing-coverts and axillaries : " bill dusky 

 black ; feet flesh-colour ; iris dusky brown ; ring round the eye 

 bright yellow " (Emin). Total length 6'8 inches, culmen 0*6, 

 wing 4-(>, tail 2'35, tarsus 1, middle toe and claw 0*8. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but with the markings not so 

 well developed, especially the black markings of the face and the 

 black bands on the hind-neck and fore-neck, the Litter being much 

 mixed with brown : " bill black ; feet pale flesh-colour ; iris dark 

 brown; ring round tho eye bright yellow" (E. Hartert). Total 

 length fro inches, culmen 0-G5, wing 4-(i, tail 2-35, tarsus 1. 



Ytomg. Differs from the adults in wanting the black on the head, 

 as well as the black collars on the mantle and fore-neck ; the general 

 tone of the plumage is more rufesceut than in the adults, and the 



