.li:GIALITIS. 109 



there is no distinct collar as in 0. geoffroyi; forehead white to middle of 

 eye ; eyebrow, sides of face, and throat white ; lower throat, fore neck, and 

 chest bright chestnut, extending down the sides of the upper breast and 

 followed by a horseshoe mark of black; breast, abdomen, and under tail- 

 coverts pure white; under wing-coverts and axillars dark smoky brown, 

 with ashy whitish tips; quill-lining also dark smoky brown. 'Bill deep 

 olive-brown, blacker on the terminal portion ; feet light brownish flesh- 

 color; toes washed with gray, blackish on joints; claws black; eyelids 

 grayish black.' {SivinJioe.) Length, 215; culmen, 25; wing, 165; tail, 

 61 ; tarsus, 44. 



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

 wanting the rufous chest-l)and. Above dark brown, including crown; 

 forehead and eyebrow isabelline wiiite, hinder part of the latter shaded 

 with sandy buff, which color also pervades the sides of face and of neck, 

 and forms a faint collar round hind neck ; throat isabelline white ; lower 

 throat, fore neck, and chest pale l)rown ; remainder of under surface white ; 

 under wing-coverts, axillars, and quill-lining smoky brown." (Sharpe.) 



Genus ^EGIALITIS Boie, 1822. 



This genus includes a number of small plovers not differing greatly 

 from Charcidrius except in size and colors; the plumage is never spotted 

 and, with the exception of a more or less complete dusky band across the 

 chest, the lower parts are pure white. 



t^pecies. 



o'. A black or rusty band across fore breast. 



6'. Shafts of primaries dark, excepting of the first which may be partly or 



entirely white dubia (p. 109) 



b-. Shafts of all the primaries white peroni (p. Ill) 



a". A smoky brown band on sides of fore breast or faintly across breast. 



alexandrina (p. 112) 



1)3. /EGIALITIS DUBIA ( Scopoli ) . 



LITTLE RINGED PLOVER. 



Charadnus dubius Scopoli, Del Flor. et Faun. Insubr. (1780), 2, 93. 

 Egialiiis dubia Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 2li3; Hand-List 



(1899), 1, 154; Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 241. 



fi<i. 54 (head) ; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 25; :Mcr,RKGOR and 



\\oR(ESTER, Hand-List ( 190(i). 23. 



Basilan (McGregor) ; Bohol (Everett) \ Cagayancillo (Medregor) ; Calayan 

 {McGregor) ; Catanduanes {Whitehead) ; Cebu {liourns d- Worceftter, McGregor) ; 

 Guimaras (titeere Exp.) ; Leyte (Everett); l^ubang (McGregor); Luzon (Eve- 

 rett); Mindanao (Everett, titeere Exp., Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (Bourns & Wor- 

 cester, McGregor) ; Negros (Bourns d- Worcester); Palawan (Platen, Whitehead, 

 l^teere Exp., White) ; Panay (Steere Exp.) ; Sibuyan (McGregor) ; Tablas (Bourns 

 d Worcester) . Europe and northern Asia to .Tajjan. in winter to India, Africa, 

 and Malay Archipelago; accidental in (alifoniia and Alaska. 



