274 CHARADR1ID.E. 



Chaiadrius peroni, Bp. C. P. xliii. p. 417 (1856) ; Schl. Mus. Pays- 



Bas, Cursores, p. 33 (1865 . Java ; Semao ; Borneo) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. iii. p. 16, no. 10005 (1871) ; Seebokm, Geogr. Distr. Ckaradr. 



p. 166 (1888). 

 Charadiius philippinus, Pe/z. Reis. Novara, Tog. p. 116 (1865). 

 ^Egialitis peroni, Suink. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 139 ; Wald. Trans. Zool. 



Zsoc. viii. p. 90, pi. x. tig. 2 (1872) ; Salvad. Uee. Born. p. 315 



(1874) ; Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 344 (S. Leyte), p. 711 (N. Boliol) ; 



Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 141 (Lirubotto, July); Vorderm.Nat. Tydschr. 



Nederl.Ind. xliv. p. 204 (1884: Java); Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, 



p. 417: Everett, Journ. Straits Branch As. Soc. 1889, p. 205; 



Vorderm. Sat. 1 ijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xlix. p. 415 (1889 : Sumatra) ; 

 Whitehead, Ibis, 1890, p. 58 (Palawan, resident); Steere, List 



Birds 4" Mamm. Exped. Philipp. p. 25 (1890: Mindanao : Siquijor ; 



Nejiros) ; Sharpe, lb/s, 1890, p. 142 (Pulo Tega, X. Borneo) ; id. 



Ibis, 1894, p. 243 (Sibutu). 



Adult male. General colour above light ashy brown, darker on the 

 rump and central upper tail-coverts, the sides of the rump and lateral 

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

 hand of dark sepia-brown along the marginal coverts ; greater 

 coverts broadly tipped with white ; bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts dark brown, with white tips ; quills light brown, blackish on 

 the outer web and at the tips, the shafts conspicuously white, the 

 inner primaries white towards the base of the outer web ; secondaries 

 dark brown, white at the ends of the outer web, increasing in extent 

 towards the innermost, the long inner secondaries like the back; the 

 four centre tail-feathers dark brown, the next pair smoky brown, the 

 next pair white with a little smoky brown at the ends, the remainder 

 pure white ; crown of head rufous, with a nuchal collar of pure 

 white, this collar followed by a broad black band on the hind-neck 

 overspreading the mantle; forehead white, reaching to above the 

 eye and separated from the rufous of the crown by a tolerably broad 

 band of black ; a distinct loral streak of black ; sides of face and 

 ear-coverts with a black band along the upper margin of the latter ; 

 cheeks and under surface of body pure white, with a large black 

 patch on each side of the fore-neck ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries white ; quills below ashy grey : " bill black, orange at base ; 

 feet grey, the claws black ; iris warm chocolate-brown ; orbital ring 

 pure orange " (A. H. Everett). Total length about 6 inches, culmen 

 0-65, wing 3-75, tail 1-55, tarsus 1-05, middle toe and claw 0-8. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but without the black band 

 across the forehead ; the black on the mantle and hind-neck repre- 

 sented by dark brown mixed with rufous, while the black patch at 

 the side of the fore-neck is replaced by dark brow n mixed with 

 rufous, with a tinge of the latter colour spreading across the fore- 

 neck : " bill black, the base yellowish ; feet purplish grey ; iris 

 dark brown " (A. H. Everett). Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0"65, 

 wing 4. tail 1*5, tarsus 1-05. 



In some specimens, apparently very old males, the black band is 

 continued right across the fore-neck. 



Young birds resemble the adults, but have no facial black markings 

 or any black or rufous on the mantle or sides of the chest, the whole 



