^EGIALITIS. Ill 



spots and irregularly shaped markings of dark brown are scattered over 

 the entire surface, but are more numerous on the larger end. 



"A resident species, usually met with about small fresh-water streams 

 in the interior." (Bourns and Worceste}- MS.) 



96. >EGIALITIS PERONI (Bonaparte). 



MALAY SAND PLOVER. 



Charadrius peroni Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. (,1856), 43, 417. 



Mgialitis peroni Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 273; Hand- 

 List (1899), 1, 154; Grant and Whitehead, Ibis (1898), 247, pi. 6. 

 fig. 8 (egg); Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 25; McGregor and 

 Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 23. 



Bantayan [McGregor) ; Basilan [McGregor] ; Boliol [Everett) ; Calayan [Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Cebu (McGregor); Fuga [McGregor); Leyte [Everett); Lubang [Mc- 

 Gregor); Luzon [Whitehead, McGregor); Mindanao [Steere Exp., Everett); 

 Mindoro [Porter) ; Negros [Steere Exp.) ; Palawan [Lempriere, Whitehead, 

 Platen); Romblon [McGregor); Sibutu [Everett); Sibuyan [McGregor) ; Siqui- 

 jor [Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester); Ticao [McGregor). Greater Sunda 

 Islands to Celebes. 



"Adult male. — x\bove light ashy brown, darker on rump and central 

 upper tail-coverts; sides of rump and lateral upper tail-coverts pure 

 white; wing-coverts like the back, with a band of dark sepia-brown 

 along marginal coverts; greater coverts broadly tipped with white; alula 

 and primary-coverts dark brown, with white tips, the shafts conspicuously 

 white ; inner primaries white toward base of outer web ; secondaries dark 

 brown, white at ends of outer web, increasing in extent toward the 

 innermost; long inner secondaries like the back; four center tail-feathers 

 dark brown, next pair smoky brown, next pair white with a little smoky 

 brown at the ends, remainder pure white; cro^sTi rufous, with a nuchal 

 collar of pure white, this collar followed by a broad black band on hind 

 neck overspreading mantle; forehead white, reaching to above eye and 

 separated from rufous of cro\^Ti by a tolerably broad band of black; a 

 distinct loral streak of black; sides of face and ear-coverts with a black 

 band along upper margin of the latter; cheeks and under surface pure 

 white, with a large black patch on each side of fore neck; under wing- 

 coverts and axillars white ; quills below ashy gray. 'Bill black, orange at 

 base; feet gray, claws black; iris warm chocolate-brown; orbital ring 

 pure orange.' (Everett.) Length, about 150; culmen, 16; wing, 95; 

 tail, 39; tarsus, 27; middle toe with claw, 20. 



"Adult female. — Similar to the male, but without the black band across 

 forehead; black on mantle and hind neck represented by dark brown 

 mixed with rufous; black patch at the side of fore neck replaced by dark 

 brown mixed with rufous, with a tinge of the latter color spreading 

 across fore neck. 'Bill black, base yellowish; feet purplish gray; iris 

 dark brown.' (Everett.) Length. 140; culmen, 10; wing, 102; tail, 

 38 ; tarsus, 2T. 



