Dr. 0. Finsch on two Species of Charadrius. 145 



Eudi'omias veredus, Harting, Ibis, 1870, p. 209, t. vi. 



Although Pallas gives no measurements, there can be no 

 doubt that he had before him the larger species, which Mr. 

 Gould afterwards named Ch. veredus from young specimens pro- 

 cured in Australia. 



Captain Conrad's male specimen from Saigon agrees, as 

 already stated, in every detail with Pallas's description and 

 figure. As in the representation of the latter, the forehead, a 

 broad stripe above the eye to the temporal region, the sides of 

 head, the chin, and throat are white ; the jugulum is covered by 

 a broad cinnamon-rufous cross band, edged below by a narrow 

 black line ; and the legs and toes are ochreous yellow [" Ros- 

 trum pedesque ut in Hiaticula," Pall.), as represented also in 

 the plates published by the late Prof. Blasius and Mr. Harting. 

 The former naturalist includes Ch. asiaticus m ' Naumau's Vogel 

 Deutschlands,' a specimen having been obtained in Heligoland 

 by Mr. Gatke ; but without a comparison of this specimen it will 

 be difficult to decide to which species it belongs. Prof. Blasius 

 describes : " die grossen Schwungfedern von der 6 ten an mit 

 weissem Flecke an der Aussenfahne," which is not observable in 

 Ch. asiaticus, but in the smaller Ch. damarensis, which has a 

 white basal patch on the outer web of the 7-1 1th remiges. Ap- 

 parently some mistake must have occurred in this description ; 

 but the iigure certainly is that of the true Ch. asiaticus. In those 

 given by Mr. Harting the eye-stripe is not pure white, but 

 washed with pale buff, showing that the bird had not yet attained 

 its full plumage. 



The female from Saigon has the front, eye-stripe, the sides of 

 the head and neck, forming a collar round the nape (which is 

 much paler and inclining to whitish in the male), the throat 

 and breast rufescent, darker on the posterior parts, and paler 

 on the chin. Otherwise it resembles the male, and would as- 

 sume a similar dress, as there are some moulting, though still 

 hidden feathers on the jugulum which are as dark rufous as in 

 the male. 



A specimen in winter plumage from North-eastern Aus- 

 tralia (Lake Elphinstone) resembles the young as described 

 by Mr. Harting (p. 210) ; but the pale buff colour on the 



