296 CHAEADEIID^;. 



Salv. Nomencl. Ac. Neotr. p. 143 (1873) ; Harting, P. Z. S. 1874, 

 p. 457, pi. lx. fig. 6 (egg) ; Bumf. Ibis, 1878, p. 402 (Central Pa- 

 tagonia) ; Gibson, Ibis, 1880, p. 163 (Cape San Antonio, Buenos 

 Ayres, breeding in Aug. & Sept.) ; Barroius, Auk, i. p. 313 (1884: 

 Concepcion, Lower Uruguay); Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1887, p. 134 

 (Paraguay) ; Scl. Sr Suds. Argent. Orn. ii. p. 172 (1889) ; Ridgw. 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xii. p. 136 (1889 : Laredo Bay) ; Holland, 

 Ibis, 1891, p. 19 (Argentine Rep., Julv) ; Berkeleg James, New 

 List Chilian B. p. 11 (1892) ; Holland, Ibis, 1892, p. 210 (Estancia 

 Espartilla, March to Sept.), 1893, p. 468 (migrant from Patagonia). 

 Charadrius (yEgialitis) falklandicus, Oust. Miss. Set. Cap Horn, Ois. 

 p. 114 (1891). 



Adult male. General colour above dark ashy brown ; wing-coverts 

 like the back, with a narrow fringe of white to the ends of the 

 greater series ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and primaries black, 

 the latter brown on the inner web, which is lined with whitish, the 

 shafts of the outer primaries entirely white, those of the inner pri- 

 maries white for the subterminal portion only, the base of these quills 

 being white on the outer web, causing a speculum ; secondaries 

 ashy brown, fringed with white at the ends, the inner secondaries 

 like the back; lower back, rump, central upper tail-coverts, and 

 central tail-feathers blackish brown, darker than the rest of the 

 back ; sides of rump and lateral upper tail-coverts white ; all but 

 the centre tail-feathers light ashy, the three outermost with white 

 shafts and white at the ends, the white extending down the middle 

 of the penultimate feather, the outermost one being entirely white ; 

 central and hinder part of crown, nape, hind-neck, and sides of 

 neck cinnamon-rufous ; forehead and lores white, separated from 

 the red crown by a broad band of black ; ear-coverts black, this 

 colour extending along the sides of the throat ; feathers below the 

 eye, cheeks, throat, and under surface of body pure white, with a 

 band of black across the fore-neck, and a second, much broader, 

 black band across the breast; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white ; the outer coverts mottled with ashy bases, the lower 

 primary-coverts ashy like the quill-lining: "bill, feet, and claws 

 black: iris wood-brown" (H. Durnford). Total length 7 inches, 

 culnien 0-8, wing 4-95, tail 2, tarsus LI. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour, but with the black 

 band on the forehead and ear-coverts less strongly defined ; the 

 rufous on the hinder crown and hind-neck paler and less pro- 

 nounced, and inclining to ashy grey on the hinder crown and nape. 

 Total length 7 inches, wing 4-9. 



Young. Light brown, all the feathers having pale ashy margins ; 

 wings and tail as in the adults; crown of head and hind-neck like 

 the back, and mottled in the same way with ashy margins to the 

 feathers ; but no rufous apparent anywhere, though there is a 

 slight tinge of buff over the eye and behind the ear-coverts ; fore- 

 head, lores, cheeks, and under surface of body white, the two black 

 bands of the adult being replaced by brown ones. 



Hob. Falkland Islands. Patagonia to Chili and the Argentine 

 Republic. 



