32. .EGiAUTis. 283 



Charadrius nivifrons, Ouv. R'eqne Anim. p. 501 (1829 : descr. nulla) ; 



Less. Traiti d'Om. p. 544 (1631) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 544 (1847) ; 



Pucher. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 280 ; Strickl. fy Scl. Contr. 



Om. 1852, p. 159 (Damara Land) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-lias, Cursores, 



p. .35 (1865). 

 Hiaticula marginata, Gray, List Grallce Brit. Mas. p. (39 (1844: S. 



Africa). 

 Hiaticula leucopolia, Licht. Nomencl. Ac. Mus. Bern/, p. 94 (1854). 

 Leucopolius niveifrons, Bp. C. Ii. xliii. p. 417 (185G). 

 /Egialitis marginata, Gurnet/, Ibis, 1800, p. 218 (Natal) ; id. in 



Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 272 (1872: Walvisch Bay; Coast 



south to the Cape) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 85 (Durban) ; ? Sharpe 



8f Boucier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 53 (1876: Landana) ; 



? Socage, Om. Angola, p. 433 (1881); Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. 



p. 598" (1882) ; Butler, Feilden, 8f Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 341 (Dur- 

 ban Harbour). 

 /Egialitis niveifrons, Cab. in Yon der Decken, Reis. iii. p. 40 (1869). 

 ^Egialitis albidipectus, Ridgic. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 526 



(1883) ; id. Auk, i. p. 83 (1884). 

 ? ^Egialitis mecbowi, Cab. J. f. O. 1884, p. 437 (Angola) ; Beichen. 



J.f. O. 1885, tab. vi. figs. 2 a, 2 b. 

 /Egialitis mechorsi (lapsu), Scl. Ibis, 1890, p. 120. 

 Leucopolius marginatus, Heine §• Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 



p. 237 (1890). 



Adult male. General colour above light ashy grey, washed with 

 pale rust-colour, very distinct on the scapulars ; rump and central 

 upper tail-coverts a little darker brown, sides of rump and lateral 

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

 marginal ones dusky brown, forming a band along the edge of the 

 wing ; greater coverts broadly tipped with white, forming a wing- 

 bar ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts dark sepia-brown, the latter 

 broadly tipped with white ; quills light ashy brown, blackish on 

 the outer webs and at the tips, the inner ones for the most part 

 white along the outer web ; secondaries dark brown, with white 

 shafts, the inner ones for the most part white, with a dark patch 

 near the end on the inner web, those adjoining the long secondaries 

 pure white, the long inner secondaries like the back : the four centre 

 tail-feathers dark brown, the next ones brown, externally white, the 

 outer ones pure white ; crown of head rust-colour, a broad frontal 

 band of white extending to above the eye, separated from the rust- 

 colour of the crown by a broad black band; a very distinct black 

 loral streak from the base of the bill to tho eye ; sides of face and 

 ear-coverts white, with a black line along the upper edge of the 

 latter ; throat and under surface of body white, with a delicate 

 blush of sandy buff from the fore-neck downwards ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white ; quills below ashy grey : " bill black ; 

 feet greyish flesh-colour; iris dark brown" (G. E. Shelley). Total 

 length 6*8 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 4 - 3, tail 2, tarsus - 95, middle 

 toe and claw 0*75. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but wanting the black bar 

 across the crown ; the forehead white, extending backwards in a 

 broad eyebrow ; tho black loral streak indicated by a dusky line, 

 and the black on tho upper margin of the car-coverts also replaced 



