298 CHAKADRIID.E. 



Anassawara) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 30-3 (Manda Isl. ; Jipi) ; id. 



P. Z. S. 1888, p. 49 (Kibiro). 

 Hiaticula pectoralis, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 94 (1854: 



Kafir aria). 

 Hiaticula frontalis, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 94 (S. Africa). 

 ^Egialitis longipes (nee Temm.), Heuyl. Syst. Uebers. p. 56 (1856: 



Blue and White Niles ; Nubia). 

 Leucopolius pecuarius, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 417 (1856) ; Antin. Cat. 



descr, Ucc. p. 96 (1864: Egypt) ; Seine § Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. 



Hein. p. 337 (1890 : Egypt). 

 Leucopolius kitlittzi, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 417 (1856). 

 Charadrius kitlittzi, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 297 (1867 : Cape 



Colony); Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 16, no. 10016 (1871 : Egypt & 



Nubia). 

 ^Egialitis kitlittzi, Newton, Ibis, 1867, p. 251 (Cape Town) ; Ayres, 



Rm, 1869, p. 300 (Transvaal). 

 ./Egialitis varius, Sorting, Ibis, 1873, p. 262, pi. viii. ; Ayres, Ibis, 



1878, p. 299 (Transvaal, breeding in August), 1880, p. 267 (Trans- 

 vaal) ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 598 (1882: Kordofan) ; Salvad. 



Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 218 (1884 : Lake Cialalaka, Shoa) ; 



Sharpe, cd. Layard 1 s B. S. Afr. p. 661 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, with paler margins to 

 most of the feathers of tho upper surface ; the lower back, rump, 

 and central upper tail-coverts blackish brown, the sides of the rump 

 and lateral upper tail-coverts white ; wing-coverts like the back, with 

 pale margins to the feathers, but with no more than a white fringe 

 to the greater coverts, so that there is no conspicuous wing-bar ; 

 marginal coverts blackish, forming a band along the edge of the 

 wing ; primary-coverts and quills blackish, with white shafts to the 

 first primary and with little or none on the inner primaries, the 

 secondaries blackish brown, narrowly fringed with white at the 

 ends, the innermost secondaries like tbe back ; the four central tail- 

 feathers blackish brown, the next pair smoky brown with white 

 tips, tho lateral feathers white with a shade of smoky brown on 

 the outer web ; crown of head brown ; forehead white, extending 

 backwards in a broad eyebrow and forming a collar round the nape, 

 this succeeded by a blackish shade on the upper mantle, which is 

 united to a broad black band traversing the ear-coverts and joining 

 the lower eyelid and black loral streak, the white forehead 

 separated from the crown of the head by a tolerably broad 

 band of black, which is again followed by an indistinct line 

 of white ; sides of face, throat, and underparts white, with the 

 exception of the chest and sides of breast, which are tinged with 

 rusty ; on each side of the chest a brown patch ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white like the breast : quills below white, 

 internally ashy : " tibia and toes bluish black, the tarsus greyish : 

 iris very dark brown " (C. J. Andersson). Total length 6*5 inches, 

 culmen 0-75, wing 3*95, tail 1*7, tarsus 1*2, middle toe and claw 

 0-85. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 

 6 inches, culmen - 7, wing 3 - 9, tail 1"6, tarsus 1*15. 



The third primary never seems to have a white shaft, though 



