Malayan Crnithology. 9 



In my notevS are many references to this species, among 

 them the following : — 



"Tanglin, Singapore, 2ncl October. Early this morning 

 three Golden Plovers were running about our lawn-tennis 

 ground, close to the public road ; they were very tame, 

 allowing me within a few yards before they rose, and even then 

 flying but a short distance. In the evening, at dusk, while 

 several of us were playing tennis, laughing and talking, a 

 Golden Plover circled round two or three times, then settled 

 on the ground in our midst. I never saw one so tame, but 

 believe it was migrating, and so tired as to be regardless of 

 danger and glad to rest anywhere.^^ 



^GiALiTis GEOFFROYi (Wagl.). The Saud-Plovcr. 



Found in great numbers on the coasts of the peninsula 

 during the north-east monsoon. Towards the end of No- 

 vember 1879 I found enormous flocks of tljem at low tide 

 on the shore of Pulo Battam ; they were then all in the 

 brown-and-white winter plumage. One, which I shot out of 

 a flock of Charadriinse which rose from a rock in mid channel 

 between Pulo Oobin and Singapore, was 8| inches in length ; 

 irides dark brown ; beak at front j-^ inch ; legs black ; 

 tarsus 1^ inch ; upper parts and streak below the eye dull 

 brown ; forehead, tip of tail, and the underparts white : date 

 10th January. 



The summer plumage is very different from that of the 

 winter-time. In my note-book I find the following notes 

 concerning two specimens obtained alive from the Malaccan 

 coast on 13th April 1879 : — 



" The two Sand-Plovers which were brought to me today 

 differ much in appearance ; both are JE. geoffroyi. My iden- 

 tification has been confirmed by Mr. Davison ; so there can 

 be no mistake ; but they are certainly very unlike one another, 

 one being in the ordinary brown-and-white winter plumage, 

 the other, a female, in the rufous colours of the breeding- 

 season. This last, Mr. Davison tells me, is the only speci- 

 men in summer plumage that he has ever seen in these parts. 

 The following is an accurate description of it : — 



" Length 8| inches, bill at front 1, tarsus 1^ ; bill black ; 



