7(i Birds of GamMa. 



('2) the bird which shouts at one in the marshes and also 

 haunts clearings and fields: beak and legs black, no wattles, a long 

 black wing -spur, black abdomen = 



Hoplnpfem.'! .'^phwavs. SPUE-WINGED PLOVER. 



Bange. "West and North-east Africa, S.E. Europe. (H.L). 



f3) A field (not a swamp) bird: beak and legs pink, a 

 small pink wattle, a nodule instead of a wing-spur, white abdomen= 



Sarewphorus tecftis. HOODED PLOVEH. 



Ranffe. Senegambia: North east Africa. (H.L.) 



These three are all weU known and common throughout the 

 Pr'otectorate. They are u.suallv found in pairs but also sometimes 

 in small parties. The native name=, Temmi-tenmo in Mandingo and 

 Wetawet in .Toloff apply to all three. 



About the occurrence in the Gambia of most of the other 

 members of this family T can o-ive but little certain information and 

 will therefore only for the sake of completeness ('as earlier) give a 

 list of those whose range includes our locality with notes of those 

 T feel sure T have seen or shot, and references to the specimlens 

 obtained in this country by Kendall Tlbis, 1892, p. 218), and Bud- 

 gett (Ibis, 1901. p. 481), both of whom made collections here, the 

 former in Bathurst and its neiThbourhood, the latter chiefly up-nver. 



Fiqnafarola helvetica. GBEY PLOVER. 



Bangle. Almost cosmopolitan. 



1 male, October. (Rendall). 



Aecrialifis olrTa-drim.. KENTISH PLOVER. 



Bancfe. Europe and Central Asia to China and Japan. 

 Africa, India, and Australia in winter. (H.L.) 



Ae. pecuaria. 



Bancfe. Africa, north to Nile Delta. (H.L.) 



Ae. hmficula. RING-PLOVER. 



Banffe. Europe, east to Lake Baikal. E. North .America 

 (casual). Africa and India in winter. (H.L.) 



Ae. dubm. LITTLE RING-PLOVER. 



Range. Europe and North As'a to Japan. "West N. America 

 (casual). Africa. India and Malaya in winter. (H.L.) 



Small flocks (4 to 6) of Ring-plover frequently seen near 

 Bathurst and the Cape from about December to March ; they are 

 probably th's species. Rendall obtained one female in April. 



Oxyerhv.9 forhesi. FORBES' PLOVER. 



Bange. "West Africa, Senegambia to Gaboon. Equatorial 

 Africa. (H.L). 



Arenaria infcrprci^. TURNSTONE. 



Bange. Cosmopolitan. 



November 2 (Rendall). T th'nk I saw one at Karawan on 

 the North Bank in January, 1904 and am sure I did at Bakau, 

 November 14, 1908. 



7'ringa suharquafa. CURLEAV-SANDPIPER. 



