286 flHAKADRIIDJE. 



8. JEgialitis venusta. 



Charadrius venustus, Fischer Sf Peichen. J.f. 0. 1884, p. 178 (Masai 

 Land) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 392 (1884 : Masai 

 Land) ; id. J.f. O. 1885, p. 115 (Nguruman) ; Reichen. t. c. pi. vi. 

 figs. 4 a, 4 b. 



j£o-ialitis venusta, Cab. J. f. 0. 1884, p. 437 ; Souza, Jorn. Sci. Lisb. 

 (2)i. no. 2, p. 117 (1889). 



Adult male. Above brownish grey, the forehead white, bordered 

 behind with a black and a reddish-coloured band, the latter con- 

 tinued down the side of the neck and united to a band on the crop, 

 of the same colour; loral streak black ; chin, sides of the head, and 

 entire under surface of body white ; primary- coverts and primaries 

 black, with white shafts, and a white base on the inner web and 

 small spots at tip ; middle tail-feathers dark brown, the next with 

 the outer web more or less white, the outermost pure white : 

 bill black ; feet greenish grey. Total length 5 - 3 inches, culmen 0-6, 

 wing 3 - 3, tail l - 4, tarsus - 9. {Fischer 4' Eeichenow.) 



Adult female. Differs from the male in wanting the black band 

 behind the forehead, with a paler reddish-coloured loral streak and 

 paler crop-band. (F. Sf R.) 



Hah. East Africa (Masai Land). 



9. iEgialitis ruficapilla. 



Charadrius ruficapillus, Temm. PL Col. v. pi. 147. fig. 2 (1823) ; 

 Waijl. Syst. Ac, Charadrius, p. 67, sp. 33 (1827) : Gray, Gen. B. 

 iii. p. 544 (1847 ); id. P. Z 8. 1858, p. 197 ; id. Cat. Mamm. $ B. 

 New Guin. p. 62 (1859) ; Rosenb. J.f. 0. 1804, p. 135 (S. Coast of 

 New Guinea) ; Finsch, Neu-Guin. p. 181 (1865) ; Schl. Mas. Pays- 

 Bas, Cuisores, p. 42 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 17, no. 10021 

 (1871); Seebohm, Geogr. Bistr. Charadr. p. 164 (1888); Bidler, 

 B. New Zeal. 2nd ed. ii. p. 5 (1888). 



Charadrius marginatus (Geoff r. nee V.), Less. Trade d' Orn. p. 544 

 (1831); id. Compl. Buff., Ois. iii. p. 393 (1838). 



iEgialitis canus, Gould, P.Z. S. 1837, p. 154. 



Hiaticula ruficapilla, Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mns. p. 71 (1844 : Van 

 Diemen's Laud); Gould, B. Austr. vi. pi. 17 (1846); Macgitt. 

 Narr. Toy. Rattlesn. ii. p. 358 (1852: X.E. Austr.; Torres 

 Straits) ; Kirk, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. xii. p. 246 (18&0). 



-Egialitis ruficapillus, Beichenb. Vog. Neuholl. p. 39, no. 330 (1850) ; 

 id. Grail. Novit. tab. 174. figs. 2424-25 (1851) ; Sorting, P. Z. S. 

 1874, p. 459, pi. lx. fig. 8 (egg); Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 337 

 (Queensland ; New South Wales, breeding) ; id. Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N. S. J(". i. p. 384 (1877 : Norman River, Gulf of Carpentaria), ii. 

 p. 197 (1878); Salcad. Ann. Mus. Gen. xviii. p. 326 (1882); id. 

 Orn. Papuasia etc. iii p. 302 (1882: 8.E. New Guinea); North, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 1164 (1887), iii. p. 1778 (1889: 

 Cumberland, N. S. W.) ; id. Nests $ Eggs Austr. B. p. 306 (1889) ; 

 Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B. p. 19 (1888: nearly the whole of 

 Australia) ; Salvad. Agg. Orn. Papuasia, iii p. 200 (1882) ; Leyye, 

 Proc. Austr. Assoc. 1892, p. 40. 



Leucopolius ruficapillus, Bj>. C. R. xliii. p. 417 (1856). 



.E<_'i;ilophilus ruficapillus, Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 2'-l~> (1865) j 



