528 Ernst Hartert and Annie C. Jackson : 



Denmark and Riigen, to the Mediterranean, Canary Islands, 

 Madeira, Cape Verde Islands and Azores, in North Africa 

 as far as the salt-swamps of the northern Sahara (Bledet- 

 Ahmar, south o£ Touggourt), absent from north Russia, but 

 throughout central Asia to Korea. — On migration to tropical 

 Africa and Cape Colony, in India, as far as Ceylon, Japan, 

 southern China and Formosa, the Natunas islands, the 

 Malay Peninsula, and Borneo. 



Text-figure 7. 



A. Charadrius alexandrinus dealbatus. 



B. C. a. ale.vandrinus. C. C. a. seehohmi. 



2. Charadrius alexandrinus dealbatus Swinhoe, 

 yEffialites dealbatus Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1870, p. 138 ("south coast of China, including Formosa 

 and Hainan'^). 



Differs from C. a. alexandrinus in its considerably stouter 

 and longer bill. According to Swinhoe and Seebohm the 

 legs are of a pale flesh-colour, but the labels written by Alan 

 Owston's Japanese collectors do not bear this out, as they 

 describe the legs and feet as blackish slate and mouse-grey, 

 i.e., the same as in the European form. Robert Hall says: 

 '♦ Pale bluish slate, front of tarsus pale fleshy cream- 

 colour." 



