106 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



92. OCHTHODROMUS GEOFFROYI (Wagler). 



LARGER SAND PLOVER. 



CMradrius geoffroyi Wagler, Syst. Av. (1827), 61. 



Ochthodromus geoffroyi Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 217; 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 153; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 20; 



McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List ( 1906), 23. 



Ma-tang .va-ca de collar, general name for small plovers. 



Bantayan (McGregor) ; Batan (McGregor) ; Bohol (Everett, McGregor) ; Ca- 

 gayancillo (McGregor); Cebu (McGregor); Cuyo (McGregor); Leyte (Everett); 

 Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Whitehead, McGregor); Negros (Everett, Bourns 

 d Worcester); Mindanao ( M earns) ; Mindoro (McGregor, Porter); Palawan 

 (Everett, Lempriere, Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, 

 White) ; Panay (Steere Exp.) ; Pata (Meartis) ; Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester). 

 Japan, Formosa, and Hainan, south in winter to Africa, India, and Australia. 



"Adult in breeding plumage. — Above light brown, with a slight olive- 

 greenish gloss, wing-coverts like the back, with obsolete indications of 

 paler fringes to some of the feathers, greater series tipped with white, 

 forming a narrow wing-bar; alula, primary-coverts, and quills brown, 

 primaries darker brown along their outer webs and at tips, shafts white; 

 inner primaries with a white mark toward the base of outer web ; second- 

 aries brown, with white fringes to the end of outer web and white tips, 

 shafts white, with a little extension along the sides of the shaft in the 

 inner secondaries; innermost long secondaries like back, outer ones white 

 along their outer web; rump and upper tail-coverts a little lighter and 

 more ashy brown than the back, with white fringes to most of the 

 feathers; sides of rump white; tail ashy brown with a broad white tip, 

 a subterminal shade of darker brown, forming an obsolete, subterminal 

 band; outer feathers with more or less white near base of inner web, 

 outermost one almost entirely white, except for a slight shade of smoky 

 brown and a slightly indicated subterminal shade of darker brown ; hinder 

 crown light brown, entirely surrounded by pale cinnamon-rufous, which 

 occupies fore part of crown and extends down sides of neck round hinder 

 neck, where it forms a broad collar of pale cinnamon-rufous; base of 

 forehead white, followed by a narrow black band ; lores black ; feathers 

 in front of and below the eye black; which unite witli a black band along 

 top of ear-coverts; sides of face and under surface of body white; across 

 fore neck and chest a broad band of cinnamon-rufous or light chestnut, 

 which extends a little way down the sides of upper breast; under wing- 

 coverts, axillars, and quill-lining white. Length, 215 ; culmen, 25 ; wing, 

 140; tail, 51; tarsus, 37. 



"Adult in winter plumage. — Differs from the summer plumage in 

 wanting the rufous chest and in the absence of all facial markings. Above 

 uniform brown, head like the back, hind neck paler and more ashy bro\vn ; 

 lores, forehead, eyelid, and a broad eyebrow white; feathers below eye 

 brown extending in a streak along ear-coverts; cheeks and entire under 



