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crown, sides of face, and sides of neck golden straw-color; throat white, 

 inclining to golden straw-color on fore neck; an infra-loral streak of 

 black from fore part of cheeks to fore part of eye; hinder crown black, 

 extending in a broad line down hind neck and overspreading upper 

 mantle; chest, breast, and sides of body, as well as under wing-coverts 

 and axillars, sooty black ; entire abdomjen, lower flanks, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts white; quills glossy black below. 'Bill greenish gray at the 

 extreme tip, then black to near nostrils; basal portion of upper mandible 

 and the helmet aurora-red ; base of lower mandible light primrose-yellow ; 

 fore part of tibia red, with a mixture in patches of yellow and greenish 

 gray; iris light sulphur-yellow; eyelash light ash-gray.' {Gould.) 

 Length, 229 ; culmen with frontal lappet, 46 ; wing, 142 ; tail, 41 ; tarsus, 

 61; middle toe with claw, 91. 



"Adult female. — Resembles the male in color but is decidedly larger; 

 a male from Port Essington measures 178 in length and has the wing 

 119, while a female from the same place measures 215 in length and has 

 the wing 142. 



"Young. — Differs considerably from the adult. General color olive- 

 brown above, the feathers with sandy-rufous margins; crown bright 

 rufous; under surface entirely white." (Sharpe.) 



Suborder CUKSORII. 



Family GLAREOLID^. 



Bill short; culmen curved; gape deeply cleft, its width greater than 

 length of culmen; wings long and pointed reaching beyond the forked 

 tail; tarsus twice the length of culmen from base and more than middle 

 toe with claw ; claw of middle toe half the length of its toe and pectinate 

 on its inner edge. 



Genus GLAREOLA Brisson, 1760. 

 Characters same as those given for the Family. 



12.S. GLAREOLA ORIENTALIS Leach. 

 EASTERN SWALLOW PLOVER. 



Glareola orientalis Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. (1820), 132, pi. 13; Gates, 

 Birds Brit. Burmah (1883), 2, 361; Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 78; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mns. (1896), 24, 58; Hand-List (1899), 1, 

 171; Blaxford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 214 fig. 48 (head); 

 McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 30. 



Calayan (McGregor) ; Luzon (Steere Exp., McGregor) ; Negros (Layard) ; 

 Palawan {Whifehcad, White). China, eastern Siberia, Indian Peninsula, Indo- 

 Chinese countries; in winter Malay Peninsula and Archipelago to Australia. 



